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Nadav
Nadav

Reputation: 220

Android below 4.2 how to set layoutDirection to be RTL

trying to set the layout elements to be RTL ordered

in 4.2 and above the line: layoutDirection="rtl" and in the manifest: android:supportsRtl="true" is working just fine.

but for below 4.2 its not.

solution anyone ?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 9899

Answers (3)

arya hm
arya hm

Reputation: 19

you can change your application language and solve this problem :

String languageToLoad  = "en";
Locale locale = new Locale(languageToLoad);
Locale.setDefault(locale);
Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.locale = locale;
getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config,
getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

Upvotes: 2

Aref Bahreini
Aref Bahreini

Reputation: 774

Just use ViewCompat using android.support.v4.view to do it.

ViewCompat.setLayoutDirection(findViewById(R.id.my_view), ViewCompat.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL);

Upvotes: 24

Boardy
Boardy

Reputation: 36205

You won't be able to. It was added to in API Level 17 which is 4.2 so the older versions do not support it.

Upvotes: 6

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