How to Align ListView Text to Right in Android?

Question

I have a list view in an Android application used to display an ArrayList containing Strings and I can't find any properties of the ListView that would allow me to align the text of the ListView Items to the right of it instead of the left. Any help would be great, thanks.

Impostume

Thanks to all for your help. I've got it working now – Impostume

Answer 1

The answer depends on how exactly do you build the list. If you use the the standard ArrayAdapter then you could use the constructor:

ArrayAdapter<String>(Context, R.layout.aligned_right, values);

where R.layout.aligned_right is a xml layout like this:

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@android:id/text1" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"  
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"                    
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" 
    android:paddingLeft="6dip"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:gravity="right"/>

Collogue

the above works but how can I handle showing the scroll bar to show on the left as it now shows over the items – Insolation

@Insolation You can't move the scrollbars on the left side. Can't you just set some decent left padding on the root of the row layout so the scrollbars will have some space and will not overlap the content? – Collogue

Answer 2

This is because these parameters are not defined in the ListView, but in the ListAdapter instead. When you specify an adapter for the list, you should set it to return such a layout which aligns items on the right.

Brattice

Answer 3

Add the below to the layout

android:layoutDirection="rtl"

Genvieve

Answer 4

This should suffice

android:layout_gravity="right" 

Tiler

Thanks for the reply but I have tried this already. This doesn't change the alignment of the text inside the ListView. – Impostume

You need to put it in the layout id you assign to your adapter. You will have to make one, instead of specifying android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1 (probably what you have?) – Glindaglinka

Answer 5

For Expandable list view we create two row XMLs namely One is group_row.xml and Other is child_row.xml.

make group_row.xml as

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/row_group_name"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="24sp"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:textAllCaps="true"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

That is, a Text view aligned to parentRight inside a Relative Layout (which is match parent).

After 2 hours of struggling, I achieved this a moment ago.

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Corridor

Answer 6

Pay attention to one small thing.

If you use listitem inside the listview, the gravity attribute of the listitem might not work if the listview layout:width is not set to match_parent.

Larkspur