Question

been trying to figure out Android layouts and having a bit of an issue. i got as far as figuring out how to get the objects in the places i want, using a RelativeLayout (tried LinearLayout and TableLayout combinations, only to find that gravity and attributes weren’t doing things i thought they would…) but i’ve run into an issue with text bleeding behind other text.

the second item demonstrates the problem. i’d like to have this same layout without the text bleeding. here is my code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:padding="6dip">
    <TextView android:id="@+id/item_text_product"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" 
            android:textSize="24sp"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    <TextView android:id="@+id/item_text_total"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="#00aa00"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    <TextView android:id="@+id/item_text_count"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_below="@id/item_text_total"
            android:textSize="12sp"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    <TextView android:id="@+id/text_count"
            android:text="Count: " 
            android:textSize="12sp"
            android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/item_text_count" 
            android:layout_alignBaseline="@id/item_text_count" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

Set a maxEms attribute on the product TextView so that it’s width can never exceed n ems.

That way should be the best solution.