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Chris Liu
Chris Liu

Reputation: 21

Text with number is disorder in RTL mode (Android)

Text like "20 minutes before" will be "minutes before 20" in RTL mode.

I feel like the system takes number as Arabic word, thus force 20 to the very right of the text.

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/Mytext"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:gravity="end|right|center_vertical"
    android:paddingLeft="4dp"
    android:paddingStart="4dp"
    android:text="5 minutes before"
    android:textDirection="locale"/>

Original string "20 minutes before" is expected.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1956

Answers (5)

Emad Seliem
Emad Seliem

Reputation: 618

Please check below code

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

    >
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/Mytext"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:paddingLeft="4dp"
        android:paddingStart="4dp"
        android:text="20 minutes before"

        />
</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 0

Ronak Ukani
Ronak Ukani

Reputation: 613

use this,

android:textAlignment="viewStart"

Upvotes: 1

Brainnovo
Brainnovo

Reputation: 1829

According to:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/application-element.html#supportsrtl

android:supportsRtl

Declares whether your application is willing to support right-to-left (RTL) layouts. If set to true and targetSdkVersion is set to 17 or higher, various RTL APIs will be activated and used by the system so your app can display RTL layouts. If set to false or if targetSdkVersion is set to 16 or lower, the RTL APIs will be ignored or will have no effect and your app will behave the same regardless of the layout direction associated to the user's Locale choice (your layouts will always be left-to-right).

so, if this is what you want to achieve than simply set android:supportsRtl = false in Manifest.

Upvotes: 0

loki
loki

Reputation: 69

if you delete "android:textDirection="locale"", then you can see what you want. i don't know which direction you want the "5 minutes before" showing. if left in RTL and LTL mode, you can set " android:gravity="start|center_vertical"", else if right "android:gravity="end|center_vertical"

Upvotes: 2

Rajnish suryavanshi
Rajnish suryavanshi

Reputation: 3404

Try this

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/Mytext"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="start"
        android:textAlignment="viewStart"
        android:paddingLeft="4dp"
        android:paddingStart="4dp"
        android:text="5 minutes before"/>

Output for LTR

5 minutes before

Output for RTL

before minutes 5

Upvotes: 0

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