android EditText android:textDirection

Question

I'd like to set an EditText to be LTR at all times, how do I do that? android:textDirection does seem to be the answer, i cant get the project to compile with that directive

Edmea

Check out this answer: https://mcmap.net/q/281594/-android-setting-with-textview-for-hebrew-text – Shanell

adding the unicode LTR mark does seem to have an effect. – Edmea

Answer 1

Adding \u202D (LTR OVERRIDE) to the beginning of the string does the trick

Edmea

Answer 2

use gravity for the editText

android:gravity="right"

Transcription

I think OP means LTR as in Arabic language, not as aligned to the right. – Corncob

but when you aligned the arabic text to right its will appear correctly. im an arabic developer – Transcription

aligning to the right would work if I wanted RTL text. what I need is LTR directional text. a text that's aligned to the left and in case the chars "aa bb" are inserted the Edit text the text should display "aa bb" and not "bb aa" which is the case when using an RTL language (Hebrew in my case). – Edmea

Answer 3

use direction for the editText

android:textDirection="ltr"

Heaton

Answer 4

Add these to your EditText:

android:gravity="left"
android:textDirection="ltr"

Note: android:textDirection requires API level 17

Xylina