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How to set the XML attribute 'layout_constrainedWidth' of ConstraintLayout programmatically?

In Constraint Layout, how to convert the xml attribute:

app:layout_constrainedWidth=”true|false”

in code?

If you want to set constrainedWidth/Height programatically, then you've to take ConstraintLayout.LayoutParams for your view and set the flag named constrainedWidth or constrainedHeight at your will.

ConstraintLayout.LayoutParams lp = (ConstraintLayout.LayoutParams) myView.getLayoutParams(); // View for which we need to set constrainedWidth.
lp.constrainedWidth = true/false;
myView.setLayoutParams(lp);
  
Specify if the horizontal dimension is constrained in case both left &
  right constraints are set and the widget dimension is not a fixed
  dimension.
  
By default, if a widget is set to WRAP_CONTENT, we will
  treat that dimension as a fixed dimension, meaning the dimension will
  not change regardless of constraints. 
  
Setting this attribute to true
  allows the dimension to change in order to respect constraints.
Check out here.
So base on the answers above,
constrainedWidth can be accessed through ConstraintLayout.LayoutParams and thus can be altered by the following code: (Thank you @JeelVankhede)
ConstraintLayout.LayoutParams lp = (ConstraintLayout.LayoutParams) 
myView.getLayoutParams(); // View for which we need to set constrainedWidth.
lp.constrainedWidth = true/false;
myView.setLayoutParams(lp);
However when using ConstraintsSet the following code would be needed:
val constraintLayout = // your constraint layout
val constraintSet = ConstraintSet()
constraintSet.clone(constraintLayout)
// This is the imporatant part
constraint.constrainDefaultWidth(R.id.yourViewId, ConstraintSet.MATCH_CONSTRAINT_WRAP)
constraintSet.applyTo(constraintLayout)
                Thank you! This was driving me bananas, but constrainDefaultWidth did the trick for a progammatically created and constrained views.
– Barn on a Hill
                Oct 4, 2019 at 17:25
        
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