Question

I want to have two TextView elements appear side by side (in a list item), one aligned to the left, one to the right. Something like:

|<TextView>               <TextView>|

(the | represent the screen’s extremities)

However, the TextView on the left can have content that is too long to fit on the screen. In this case, I want to have it ellipsize but still show the entire right TextView. Something like:

|This is a lot of conte...<TextView>|

I have had numerous attempts at this, using both LinearLayout and RelativeLayout, and the only solution I have come up with is to use a RelativeLayout and put a marginRight on the left TextView big enough to clear the right TextView. As you can imagine, though, this is not optimal.

Are there any other solutions?

Final, LinearLayout solution:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    >
    <TextView
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:inputType="text"
        />
    <TextView
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="0"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:inputType="text"
        />
</LinearLayout>

Old, TableLayout solution:

<TableLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:stretchColumns="1"
    android:shrinkColumns="0"
    >
    <TableRow>
        <TextView android:id="@+id/title"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:singleLine="true"
            />
        <TextView android:id="@+id/date"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:ellipsize="none"
            android:gravity="right"
            />
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>

Answer 1

Use TableLayout and put both TextView in table row, have a try. I haven’t tried