Question

Please have a look at the following code

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
     >

    <LinearLayout 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        >

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/firstNumber"
        />

    <EditText 
        android:id="@+id/firstNumberTxt"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        />

    </LinearLayout>

     <LinearLayout 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        >

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/secondNumber"
        />

    <EditText 
        android:id="@+id/secondNumberTxt"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        />

    </LinearLayout>



         <RadioGroup
             android:id="@+id/radioGroup"
             android:layout_width="wrap_content"
             android:layout_height="wrap_content"
             android:orientation="horizontal"
             >

             <RadioButton 
                 android:id="@+id/sum"
                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                 android:text="@string/sum"
                 />

             <RadioButton 
                 android:id="@+id/min"
                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                 android:text="@string/min"
                 />

             <RadioButton 
                 android:id="@+id/max"
                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                 android:text="@string/max"
                 />

             <RadioButton 
                 android:id="@+id/dev"
                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                 android:text="@string/dev"
                 />
         </RadioGroup>

</LinearLayout>

The output GUI of this code is attached as an image

However, you can see that one text box is starting before the other one, making the GUI ugly. I need to display the textboxes in the same column, in a one straight line. For an example, if the text box 1 is starting at X=1 and Y=1, the second textbox should start in X=1 and Y=2, this example is in case of Java. Please help!

Answer 1

Use fixed size for your TextViews (e.g. android:layout_width="20dip" for both Views). Or use TableLayout for displaying two columns: the first column will store TextViews, the second one will have EditTexts.