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kingston
kingston

Reputation: 11419

align on the right the entry in a listview

I have a listview to show messages in a chat. I'd like to show the received messages on the left and the sent messages on the right. Please consider that it is not enough to align the contained views because I need to show a background of the entry and the background should be aligned too. SO the whole entry should be aligned.

Is there a way to do it?

I tried to use android:layout_gravity="right" but it did not work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 851

Answers (3)

kingston
kingston

Reputation: 11419

I managed to do it by using:

    LayoutParams params = (LayoutParams) frame.getLayoutParams();
    params.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT, alignRight?0:1);
    params.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT,  alignRight?1:0);
    frame.setLayoutParams(params);

what it is important is that I had to add a frame within a RelativeLayout for my entry, because params.addRule is available only for RelativeLayout. If you try to do the same with the view passed to bindView you get a different LayoutParam that does not support addRule

Upvotes: 1

Barak
Barak

Reputation: 16393

You could try setting the parameter programatically in your adapter using LayoutParams.

Something like the following for sent messages:

LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.MyLinearLayout);
// need to cast to LinearLayout.LayoutParams to access the gravity field
LayoutParams params = (LayoutParams)ll.getLayoutParams(); 
params.gravity = Gravity.RIGHT;
ll.setLayoutParams(params);

and the reverse (change RIGHT to LEFT) for received messages.

Upvotes: 0

Sebastian Breit
Sebastian Breit

Reputation: 6159

Of course! you need an Adapter. In the adapter, when you inflate the ListItem, just inflate different Items for sent and received messages!

Upvotes: 0

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