Question

I have a xml in Android which is

 <TextView 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="122px"
    android:layout_marginTop="40px"
    android:id="@+id/am"
    android:text="@string/iam"
    android:textColor="#000000" android:textSize="20px">
    </TextView>

    <TextView 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:layout_marginTop="40px"
    android:id="@+id/jname"
    android:textColor="#000000" android:textSize="20px" >
    </TextView>

<TextView 
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:id="@+id/going"
android:text="@string/sloc"
android:textColor="#000000" android:textSize="20px">
</TextView>

My TextView jname will be dynamic i.e. I will be filling the spot with the data from JSON. What I want is that my TextView of the id jname should always come to the right of the TextView having source @string/iam and left of TextView having source @string/sloc. I don’t want to define layout_margin attributes because that would fix the positions and everything will overlap if the width of the dynamic data is not proper. Help!

Answer 1

If your problem is purely with layout, then just enclose all of that in a LinearLayout and set a weight for the middle TextView.

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="122px"
            android:layout_marginTop="40px"
            android:id="@+id/am"
            android:text="@string/iam"
            android:textColor="#000000" android:textSize="20px">
        </TextView>

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:layout_marginTop="40px"
        android:id="@+id/jname"
        android:textColor="#000000" android:textSize="20px"
        android:layout_weight="1">
    </TextView>

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/going"
        android:text="@string/sloc"
        android:textColor="#000000" android:textSize="20px">
    </TextView>
</LinearLayout>