Right to left in android studio

Question

I'm using Android Studio for application development and I have a problem with placing elements in the screen.

For example: I'm trying to place a button to the right of the screen and in the studio its shown to the right of the screen but when I install the app in my smartphone i see it in the left of the screen (my smartphone is right to left configured).

How can i resolve it? (I use RelativeLayout if that matters).

Thanks!

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Answer 1

It would be easier to answer your question if you included some code. However, assuming your button is inside a relative parent layout which fills the screen, adding this to your button's xml code will make it align to the right:

android:layout_alignParentRight="true" 

ie.

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="145dp"
        android:layout_height="75dp"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:onClick="btnclick"
        android:text="Click!"
        android:textSize="30sp" />

Or to make it really easy, replace your entire XML with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:weightSum="1">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="145dp"
        android:layout_height="75dp"
        android:onClick="btnclick"
        android:text="Click!"
        android:textSize="30sp" 
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>

</RelativeLayout>