Max lines with height set as wrap_content

Question

I have two TextViews in a vertical LinearLayout, one serves as a display for a book's title and the latter as a display for the book's author(s). I need the first to have wrap_content as its height, so it takes a good part of the linear layout. However, I want it to cap out at three lines max, so that there is still some space left for the second text view; and I need the latter to fill the remaining space (0dp and layout_weight=0dp). I want to use specific configuration so that the author view will be always right after the title view (on its bottom).

Something like this, however the max_lines do not kick in.

I tried to set max_lines to 3 and wrap_content for the first view height, but it seem that max_lines is ignored if height is set to wrap_content.

I also tried to circumvent the problem by sort of cheating and adding a max_height, but then the two views may be spaced apart from one another.

At last I tried to convert the linear layout to a constraint layout, to see if I could access some other layout settings to no avail.

Any help?

Answer 1

Replacing app:max_lines with android:max_lines seems to have fixed the issue.