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How to Create or Drawing Separator/Divider Line with text in Layout android?


How to create a line with text in android in layout. Like

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Solution

  • 1.if you want to use constraint layout

    <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">
            
            <View
                android:id="@+id/first_divider"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="1dp"
                app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/text"
                android:background="@color/white80"/>
            
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/first_divider"
                app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/first_divider"
                app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/first_divider"
                app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/second_divider"
                android:textColor="@color/white80"
                android:text="OR"/>
    
            <View
                android:id="@+id/second_divider"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="1dp"
                app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/text"
                app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
                android:background="@color/white80"/>
    
        </androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
    

    2.if you want to use LinearLayout

     <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
            android:orientation="horizontal">
    
            <View
                android:id="@+id/first_divider"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="1dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                android:background="@color/white80"/>
    
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textColor="@color/white80"
                android:text="OR"/>
    
            <View
                android:id="@+id/second_divider"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="1dp"
                android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:background="@color/white80"/>
    
        </LinearLayout>
    

    3.if you want using relative layout

    <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
            android:orientation="horizontal">
    
            <View
                android:id="@+id/first_divider"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="1dp"
                android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/text"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:background="@color/white80"/>
    
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
                android:textColor="@color/white80"
                android:text="OR"/>
    
            <View
                android:id="@+id/second_divider"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="1dp"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/text"
                android:background="@color/white80"/>
    
        </RelativeLayout>
    

    Here the result :

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