As a side-note: I think the TextView's (and EditText) 'gravity' should have been called 'alignment'. It's called that way in most UI's. :=)
On May 14, 10:54 am, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Well, first of all RelativeLayout ignores layout_gravity. Then you > need to know that gravity means "apply gravity to the content of this > view" whereas layout_gravity means "apply gravity to this view within > its parent." So on a TextView, gravity will align the text within the > bounds of the TextView whereas layout_gravity will align the TextView > within the bounds of its parent. > > > > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Matthias <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I think I've lost enough hair over this, so now I'll ask. What is the > > difference between those attributes? According to the documentation of > > R.attr, there isn't any difference (doc text is exactly the same, see > >http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html), but > > apparently, that's simply not true. For example, the gravity attribute > > can be used on EditText to set the text alignment (e.g. left, center, > > right). > > > I often found that neither of them work to align a view at all. For > > example, I need to float two text views in a relative layout, one > > going to the left below a title bar, the other going to the right > > below the title bar. So what I did was this: > > > <RelativeLayout > > xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; > > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > > android:layout_height="fill_parent"> > > > <!-- the title bar --> > > <ImageView ... > > </ImageView> > > > <TextView android:id="@+id/left_text" > > android:layout_below="@id/title_bar" > > android:layout_gravity="left" > > ... > > /> > > > <TextView android:id="@+id/right_text" > > android:layout_below="@id/title_bar" > > android:layout_gravity="right" > > ... > > /> > > > </RelativeLayout> > > > That doesn't work, however. The left text is indeed aligned to the > > left inside its parent (the relative layout), but the right text is > > not aligned to the right; instead, it's placed directly to the right > > of the left text. > > > Why's that? > > > Thanks, > > Matthias > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
