How can I display two horizontal textviews, one of which resizes depending on content?

Question

I have a ListView that shows two TextViews, like so:

| Each row   |    has the |
| same width | as the row |
| before it  |  like this |

But I want to do something like this:

| Each left column | uses |
| as much space |   as it |
| needs |       like this |

Can this be done with just XML? I have tried modifying this solution, but it did not work correctly.

Answer 1

You should wrap text views in RelativeLayout. Specify android:layout_width="wrap_content" for both, and android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" and android:layout_alignParentRight="true" for the left and right TextViews respectively. Set android:gravity="left" and android:gravity="right" respectively, as well

But in this case long text may overlap

another option is to use layout_weight:

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:text="some text"/>
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="right"
        android:text="text"/>

</LinearLayout>