Question

I have a rather simple ListView row:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tournament_name"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:textSize="25dp" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tournament_winner"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:textSize="25dp" />

</RelativeLayout>

When the text of "@+id/tournament_name"is long – it overlaps with the one from "@+id/tournament_winner" and I don’t understand why.

I tried using android:singleLine="false"to no avail. I also tried using android:inputType="textMultiLine"as the docu says android:singleLine="false" is deprecated but then I get the warning: Attribute android:inputType should not be used with <TextView>: Change element type to
<EditText> ? so no good here as well.

I also tried using android:ellipsize="end" but this doesn’t work. I assume it is because the text in the left TextView ("@+id/tournament_name") is NOT long enough to fill up the full width of the ListView (which code is not sowing here).

I was sure that if I use android:layout_width="wrap_content"the two TextView fields shouldn’t overlap.

Here is an example (see the second line):

Any further ideas how this could be fixed?

Answer 1

    android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/tournament_winner" in First TextView.

Also set android:maxLines="1" and Fix width for tournament winner because when it gets long tournament name cant see…

row.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tournament_name"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/tournament_winner"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="NAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
        android:textSize="25dp" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tournament_winner"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:text="WINER"
        android:textSize="25dp" />

</RelativeLayout>