ConstraintLayout chain context menu no longer visible in Android Studio

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Using Android Studio 3.4 Canary 9 and 10 ConstraintLayout 2.0.0.alpha3

I am having an issue with constraint layout in the bleeding edge build of Android Studio 3.4 canary 9. Basically, when you click on a view in constraint layout, say on a chain element, you should be able to see small icons appear that allow you to perform certain actions on the views.

Constraint Layout wth context menu buttons

As you can see, under each view are 3 buttons that allow you to change the chain settings. However, this is what I get in my layout editor on 3.4.C09 when clicking on an element in a chain:

Missing context menu in 3.4.C09

Did they get disabled or moved elsewhere? Is this a bug? I have looked everywhere in the IDE without any luck, tried zooming in / zooming out, changing the theme, invalidating caches/restart, clean rebuild etc.

Thank you for any help provided!

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2 Answers

UPDATE

Now you should see Circle Chain mode option in right-click menu in Android Studio 3.6.

According to the official response, this function has been removed in AS3.4. But there seems to be no alternative. I have reported this problem to Goole and you can track here.

For now, you can add app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle attr in xml manually. And after that Cycle chain mode options will appeare in the right-click menu.

user_91500680

It is now available in attributes under layout_constraints. ( AS 3.5 )

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