Direction issue In Numeric text English to Arabic

Question

I am developing android application with supporting Arabic & English Language

For the Arabic language i was followed below steps :

• Android Studio > Refactor > Add RTL support where possible…
• 2nd I'll paste this line in manifest.xml : android:supportsRtl="true"

or

• I was changed layout property Left and Right with Start and End

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Wow I'm happy after this changes because when i select Arabic Language some design is going to LTR but when i test my application i found some issues.

For example see below image :

When i set RTL You can see birthday(15/05/1994) is shown as LTR and all text shown as RTL(DOB,Gender,City).

Here is a problem birthday is show as 'LTR' then WHY other EditText is not going to RTL.

Here you can see my code :

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/_15sdp"
    android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_15sdp"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/_12sdp"
    android:layout_width="match_parent">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_age"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_5sdp"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/dob"
        android:textColor="@color/color_gray"
        android:textSize="@dimen/normal_input_text_size" />

    <EditText
        android:background="@null"
        android:focusable="false"
        android:gravity="end"
        android:id="@+id/edit_dob"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_10sdp"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/tv_age"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:text="15/05/1994"
        android:textSize="@dimen/normal_input_text_size" />
</RelativeLayout><include layout="@layout/half_view" />

<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/_12sdp"
android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_15sdp"
android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/_15sdp"
android:gravity="center_vertical">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tv_gender"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/gender"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:textSize="@dimen/normal_input_text_size"
    android:textColor="@color/color_gray"
    android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_5sdp" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/edit_gender"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/tv_gender"
    android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_10sdp"
    android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
    android:gravity="end"
    android:text="Male"
    android:focusable="false"
    android:textSize="@dimen/normal_input_text_size"
    android:background="@null"
    android:singleLine="true" />
</RelativeLayout><include layout="@layout/half_view" />

<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/_12sdp"
android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_15sdp"
android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/_15sdp"
android:gravity="center_vertical">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tv_city"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/city"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:textSize="@dimen/normal_input_text_size"
    android:textColor="@color/color_gray"
    android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_5sdp" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/edit_city"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/tv_city"
    android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_10sdp"
    android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
    android:gravity="end"
    android:focusable="false"
    android:text="Patan"
    android:textSize="@dimen/normal_input_text_size"
    android:background="@null"
    android:singleLine="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

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• I already read this official page but didn't helpful for me.

Answer 1

Try this.

In RTL when you have set text as numeric this things happen.

LayoutDirection property added from API 19 please check Reference

Add below property to Edittext.

android:layoutDirection="ltr"

RTL ScreenShot

LTR Screenshot

For more info check this reference For RTL support