how to design right to left linear layout

Question

First sorry about my weak English language!

I designed a layout. This is part of the layout:

 <ScrollView     android:id="@+id/scrollView1"     android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:layout_height="fill_parent"     android:padding="5dip" >      <LinearLayout         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="match_parent"         android:background="@drawable/shape_details"         android:orientation="vertical"         android:padding="10dip" >          <LinearLayout             android:layout_width="match_parent"             android:layout_height="wrap_content"             android:gravity="right" >              <TextView                 android:id="@+id/txt_details_ostan"                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"                 android:gravity="right"                 android:text="Medium Text"                 android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"                 android:textColor="#0000FF" />               <TextView                 android:id="@+id/textView3"                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"                 android:text="استان"                 android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"                 android:textColor="#AA0000" />         </LinearLayout> 

Preferred language direction is right to left. The red colors are topic, and the blue ones are text that will read from database.

The problem is that the text has many characters and when shown in this layout, the topic will be disappeared because of my layout is "left to right" and the text fill all layout.

I searched a lot but I can't find any way to change the layout "right to left".

Answer 1

Add the following line to your layout:

android:layoutDirection="rtl" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" 

Answer 2

Try doing this:

1. Change your LinearLayout to a RelativeLayout
2. Align the topic to parent right
3. Put subject text to left of the topic

Here's an example:

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:id="@+id/scrollView1"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="fill_parent"     android:padding="5dip" >      <LinearLayout         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="match_parent"         android:orientation="vertical"         android:padding="10dip" >          <RelativeLayout             android:layout_width="match_parent"             android:layout_height="wrap_content"             android:gravity="right" >              <TextView                 android:id="@+id/textView3"                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"                 android:layout_alignParentRight="true"                 android:text="استان"                 android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"                 android:textColor="#AA0000" />              <TextView                 android:id="@+id/txt_details_ostan"                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"                 android:gravity="right"                 android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/textView3"                 android:text="This is a sample of a long message. It will not push the topic off screen."                 android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"                 android:textColor="#0000FF" />          </RelativeLayout>     </LinearLayout> </ScrollView>