how to design right to left linear layout

Issue

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".

Solution

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>

Answered By - JstnPwll