Question

Let me start with an image:

As you can see, it almost does what I need, except “Movies” drops to the next line — which looks really horrible. Here is my XML code:

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/myMasterCat_Item"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="left"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="99"
            android:text="Item"
            android:textColor="#222"
            android:textSize="18sp" >
        </TextView>

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/myMastCat_Cat"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:gravity="right"
            android:text="MasterCat"
            android:textColor="#999"
            android:textSize="15sp" >
        </TextView>
    </LinearLayout>

How can I set it so it does not happen this way?

Answer 1

You can try this:

<LinearLayout
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:orientation="horizontal"
>
<TextView
            android:id="@+id/myMasterCat_Item"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Item"
            android:textColor="#222"
            android:textSize="18sp" >
        </TextView>

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/myMastCat_Cat"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:text="MasterCat"
            android:textColor="#999"
            android:textSize="15sp" >
        </TextView>
</LinearLayout>

Also please note that if you use the weight attribute, you should set the width or height attribute to 0dp depending on which sizes you want to be affected..