Android RTL password fields?

Question

It appears that if you have an EditText on android with the

android:inputType="textPassword" or android:password="true

fields on them, right-to-left text does NOT appear right-to-left (stays left-to-right).

However without the password denotations the text does appear RTL.

Is this a known issue or is there a workaround?

Answer 1

For 17+ (4.2.x+) you can use textAlignment

android:textAlignment="viewStart"

Answer 2

The only solution I've found was to set the gravity programatically to LEFT or RIGHT after setting the inputType.

Answer 3

In my case, the problem was simply solved by changing the layout_width to wrap_content.