How to right-align text in an Android TextView or EditText?

Question

I have an EditText in my application. I want to align the text in it to the right instead of the default left. I tried adding

android:layout_gravity="right"

but this doesn't seem to work. any other suggestions please?

Answer 1

You should use android:gravity="right". layout_gravity is for the view (EditText) alignment against the container.