How to Align different Items Recycler View

Question

How do I align different Text Views that are held in different Layouts in the Recycler View?

The ViewHolder is a constraint layout and I think constraining every View to their corresponding below View would work, but I'm not sure on how to do it.

Also check the picture to have more context.

Item Layout XML code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:padding="6dp"
    android:layout_gravity="center">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/dayTextView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginEnd="40dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@id/weatherDescriptionItemImageView"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">

    </TextView>

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/weatherDescriptionItemImageView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@id/dayTextView"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@id/weatherDescriptionItemTextView"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">

    </ImageView>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/weatherDescriptionItemTextView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginEnd="30dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@id/weatherDescriptionItemImageView"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@id/minMaxTempItemTextView"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">

    </TextView>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/minMaxTempItemTextView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginEnd="5dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@id/weatherDescriptionItemTextView"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">

    </TextView>

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

Answer 1

You could use constraint layouts horizontal chains to align all three in to equal size textviews and drawableStart for the Image.

Here is how to achieve this in 3 textviews and horizontal chains.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout 
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:padding="8dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">


<TextView
    android:id="@+id/dayTextView"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:maxLines="2"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/weatherDescriptionItemTextView"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    tools:text="@tools:sample/lorem/random">

</TextView>

<TextView
    android:maxLines="2"
    android:drawablePadding="8dp"
    android:drawableStart="@drawable/ic_outline_wb_sunny_24"
    android:id="@+id/weatherDescriptionItemTextView"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/minMaxTempItemTextView"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/dayTextView"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    tools:text="@tools:sample/lorem/random"
    >

</TextView>

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/minMaxTempItemTextView"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:maxLines="2"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/weatherDescriptionItemTextView"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    tools:text="@tools:sample/lorem/random"
    >

</TextView>

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

use of linear layouts weight is discouraged by google due to performance and high cost of nested layouts maintainability.