Question

For building an application, we have several lists.
the problem exists with a list item, which is custom, but very simple nontheless.
The format is:

This represents one list item with 2 textviews and one image view

Note that title and date are actually right underneath eachother and the image is on the right side, with center vertical as attribute.The image should NOT be in between the two text views

I will give the XML first and then explain the exact problem.

The XML:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="horizontal" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <LinearLayout 
        android:orientation="vertical" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <TextView 
            android:textSize="16dip" 
            android:id="@+id/title"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

        <TextView 
            android:textSize="12dip" 
            android:id="@+id/date"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    </LinearLayout>
    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginRight="5dip" >

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/validationStateImg"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true" />
    </RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Problem:
In some sense, this layout displays everything exactly as the ascii representation.
What does NOT function correctly is when the text is becoming long. In cases where the text is long, but not long enough to take 2 lines, it just makes the imageview tiny.

In other cases, it just pushes imageview completely off the screen..

What I need is, when the length of either the date or the other textview is too long, to break to a new line. And ofcourse it needs to be a solution portable to all sorts of screen sizes.

I’m not a UI artist, so, apologies if I’m abusing layouts in a sense that they should not be used.

Aside help, tips and hints are also welcome!

Answer 1

I think your best bet is one simple RelativeLayout:

<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="8dp"
    >
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/validationStateImg"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/title"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/validationStateImg"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:textSize="16dp"
        />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/date"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/validationStateImg"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@id/title"
        />
</RelativeLayout>

Snap the ImageView to the right side of the parent, and let the TextViews take the rest of the width, but aligned to the left of the ImageView.