android – ConstraintLayout doesn't respect max width/height in combination with DimensionRatio

The view below needs to be square. I also want to the view to be restricted to a certain size. Somehow the ConstraintLayout is ignoring the max width/height property when this is used in combination with dimensionRatio on the same element.

<android.support.constraint.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:layout_height="match_parent">
    <View 
       android:layout_width="0dp"
       android:layout_height="0dp"
       app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/guideline_top"
       app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1"
       app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/guideline_left"
       app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="@+id/guideline_right"
       app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/guideline_bottom" 
       app:layout_constraintWidth_max="100dp"
       app:layout_constraintHeight_max="100dp"/>

At the moment I’m using a workaround by putting the View in a container as shown below. But I’d rather keep my layout-hierarchy as flat as possible.

<android.support.constraint.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:layout_height="match_parent">
    <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout 
          android:layout_width="0dp"
          android:layout_height="0dp"
          app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/guideline_top"
          app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/guideline_left"
          app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="@+id/guideline_right"
          app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/guideline_bottom"
          app:layout_constraintWidth_max="100dp"
          app:layout_constraintHeight_max="100dp"> 
             <View 
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1"
                app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" 
                />

Is this is a restriction in the constraintlayout that you can’t use max width/height in combination with dimension ratio?

I’m using ConstraintLayout v1.0.2.

`app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="H,1:1"` 

`app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="W,1:1"`

Tags: androidandroid, layout