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Anand.B
Anand.B

Reputation: 141

Consider adding android:paddingStart="25dp" to better support right-to-left layouts Error

I recently downloaded a new ADT. Every time after saving my projects ,it shows the following XML error. But the same goes away when I clean it. Is there a permanent solution for the same.

Thanks in advance.

  <TextView
        android:id="@+id/selectquantityprompt"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="2dip"
        android:layout_marginRight="50dip"
        android:layout_marginTop="2dip"
        android:text="Select Quantity"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:textColor="#33b5e5"
        android:paddingLeft="25dp" //error at this line
        android:paddingTop="5dp"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"

        />

Multiple annotations found at this line:

- Consider adding android:paddingStart="25dp" to better support right-to-left layouts
- When you define %1$s you should probably also define %2$s for right-to-left

Upvotes: 8

Views: 12816

Answers (4)

myfknoll
myfknoll

Reputation: 455

Answer from sreenu solved my issue. But if you target higher APIs you should also add paddingEnd, as in the following example:

android:paddingLeft="25dp"
android:paddingStart="25dp"
android:paddingRight="0dp"
android:paddingEnd="0dp"

Upvotes: 1

Frederico Silva
Frederico Silva

Reputation: 328

If you want to change the severity of that error go to "Lint Error Checking" at Preferences and change "RtlSymmetry" to "Warning" instead "Error".

Upvotes: 10

sree_sg
sree_sg

Reputation: 709

Just add android:paddingRight="0dp" along with android:paddingLeft="25dp", error will disappear.

Upvotes: 2

Yashdeep Patel
Yashdeep Patel

Reputation: 3130

android:paddingStart is newly introduced tag in android 4.2 onwards.

Now RTL means right-to-left layouts which are used in RTL languages like arabic.

So while developing layout you can add same value to paddingStart as padding left. So that when android render RTL layout it will consider paddingStart.

  • If you are targeting your app to Android 4.2 (the app's targetSdkVersion or minSdkVersion is 17 or higher), then you should use “start” and “end” instead of “left” and “right”. For example, android:paddingLeft should become android:paddingStart.
  • If you want your app to work with versions earlier than Android 4.2 (the app's targetSdkVersion or minSdkVersion is 16 or less), then you should add “start” and end” in addition to “left” and “right”. For example, you’d use both android:paddingLeft and android:paddingStart.

Ref Links: RTL Layout Support

Developer Blog: Native RTL support in Android 4.2

Upvotes: 15

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