Right align text in android TextView

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I have a TextView in my application  I want to align the text in it to the right  I tried adding   android gravity  right    But this doesn t work for me   What might I be doing wrong

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android layout gravity is used to align the text view with respect to the parent layout  android gravity is used to align the text inside the text view   Are you sure you are trying to align the text inside the text view to the right or do you want to move the text view itself to the right with respect to the parent layout or are you trying to acheive both

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The better solution is the one that is the most simple  and the one that does less modification in your code behaviour   What if you can solve this problem only with 2 Properties on your TextView   Instead of needing to change your LinearLayout Properties that maybe can alter the behaviour of LinearLayout childs   Using this way  you do not need to change LinearLayout properties and behaviour  you only need to add the two following properties to your target TextView    android gravity  right  android textAlignment  gravity    What would be better to change only your target to solve your solution instead of having a chance to cause another problem in the future  modifying your target father  think about it

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android gravity  right    It is basically used in Linear Layout so you have to set your width of TextView or either EditText as  android layout width    match parent    and  When you are working in Relative Layout  use  android layout alignParentRight  true

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If it is in RelativeLayout you can use android layout toRightOf  quot  id  lt id of desired item gt  quot  Or If you want to align to the right corner of the device the place android layout alignParentRight  quot true quot

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In my case  I was using Relative Layout for a emptyString   After struggling on this for an hour  Only this worked for me   android layout toRightOf   id welcome  android layout toEndOf   id welcome  android layout alignBaseline   id welcome    layout toRightOf or layout toEndOf both works  but to support it better  I used both    To make it more clear   This was what I was trying to do     And this was the emulator s output    Layout     lt TextView     android id    id welcome      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android layout marginStart  16dp      android layout marginTop  16dp      android text  Welcome       android textSize  16sp    gt   lt TextView     android id    id username      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android layout alignBaseline   id welcome      android layout toRightOf   id welcome      android text   string emptyString      android textSize  16sp    gt    Notice that     android layout width  wrap content  works Gravity is not used

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In case somebody still needs  android gravity  end

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In general  android gravity  right  is different from android layout gravity  right    The first one affects the position of the text itself within the View  so if you want it to be right-aligned  then layout width  should be either  fill parent  or  match parent     The second one affects the View s position inside its parent  in other words - aligning the object itself  edit box or text view  inside the parent view

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try to add android gravity  center  into TextView

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The following code snippet   android textAlignment  textEnd  android layout gravity  end    works great for me

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Make sure that you are not using android layout width  wrap content  if so then it won t be able to set the gravity because you are not having enough space for the text to align  Instead use android layout width  fill parent

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Below works for me    lt TextView     android id    id tv username      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android text  Sarah    gt    lt TextView     android id    id tv distance      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android layout alignBottom    id tv username      android layout alignParentEnd  true      android layout toEndOf    id tv username      android text  San Marco      android textAlignment  viewEnd    gt    Please note the android layout alignParentEnd and android textAlignment settings of the second TextView

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this should serve the purpose  android textAlignment  textStart

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You can use        android layout alignParentRight  true      android layout centerVertical  true

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Let me explain gravity concept using WEB because a lot of developer are aware of it    android layout gravity behaves float left right top bottom  Whereas android gravity work as text align centre left right  In Android float is android layout gravity and text align  is android gravity   And android layout gravity applies relative to parent  where as android gravity applies to its child or inner content   Note android gravity only works when its View is match parent when it have space to center

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Make the  LinearLayout  android layout width  match parent  and the TextView s android layout gravity  right

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I have used the attribute  layout alignRight  in my case  in text its    android layout alignRight    id myComponentId    If you want to add some right margin  just set the attribute  Layout Margin Right  to  20dp  for exemple  in text its    android layout marginRight  20dp

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I think that you are doing this  android layout width    wrap content  If this is the case  do this  android layout width    match parent

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I also faced the same problem and figured the problem was happening as the layout width of the TextView was having wrap content  You need to have layout width as match parent and the android gravity    gravity

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lt RelativeLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android       android layout width  fill parent       android layout height  fill parent  gt      lt TextView     android id    id tct postpone hour      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  50dp      android layout centerHorizontal  true      android layout centerVertical  true      android layout gravity  center      android gravity  center vertical center horizontal      android text  1      android textSize  24dp    gt   lt  RelativeLayout gt    makes number one align in center both horizontal and vertical

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