Question

I have a custom cell for my listview which has TEXT NUMBER – which works fine, however when the TEXT goes over one line, the right hand number goes over more than one line too which looks silly. Is there a property to fix this from happening?

My XML is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtOption"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="7"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        android:paddingTop="5dp"
        android:text="Medium Text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />


    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtCount"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="3"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        android:paddingLeft="25dp"
        android:paddingRight="15dp"
        android:paddingTop="5dp"
        android:text="[21]"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />


</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

Seems like your layout_weight for views is not kicking-in. For that, I think you are missing to define android:weightSum="10" within your LinearLayout definition. Moreover, you need to set android:layout_width="0dp" to both of your TextView.