Apologize for the confusing wordings.

Here's a LinearLayout:

       <TextView
           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:text="Note:" />

       <EditText

           android:hint="Add Note"
           android:gravity="right"
           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
    </LinearLayout>

This is the actual output:

And this is the expected output:

How to set the EditText aligned on the right of the LinearLayout while still horizontally aligned with the TextView? And I also want the layout_width of the EditText to be wrap_content, so it doesn't occupy the rest of the LinearLayout

CodePudding user response：

So you just want give space between edittext and textview, if yes, give another linearlayout between edditext and textview like this

   <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text="Note:" />

   <LinearLayout
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:weightSum="1"/>

   <EditText

       android:hint="Add Note"
       android:gravity="right"
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Let me know if i wrong assume your question

CodePudding user response：

You can add any sort of view in between them with a layout_weight of 1 and a width of 0dp, then set the layout_weight to 0 on the other views so the middle one stretches to fill the remaining space, like this:

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Note:" 
        android:layout_weight="0"/>
    
    <View
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1.0"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
        />

    <EditText
        android:hint="Add Note"
        android:gravity="right"
        android:layout_weight="0"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

Giving you this layout

Alternately, you can use a ConstraintLayout to avoid having to add the extra view, like this:

<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <TextView
        android:id="@ id/textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Note:"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="spread_inside"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@id/editText"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@id/editText"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@id/editText"/>
    
    <EditText
        android:id="@ id/editText"
        android:hint="Add Note"
        android:gravity="right"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@id/textView"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

This is especially helpful if you have a lot of layouts like this on a screen, you can do this with a single ConstraintLayout instead of multiple nested LinearLayouts.

CodePudding user response：

An easier way would be to use ConstraintLayout for this. If you haven't used ConstraintLayout before, do give it a try. Read this to know more -