Multiple alignment in TextView?

Question

I have a TextView like below. I used this code to set gray color for a part of the text.

// Prepare result text.
final String resultText = text + "\n\n" + dictionaryName;
final SpannableString styledResultText = new SpannableString(resultText);
styledResultText.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.GRAY), text.length() + 2, text.length() + 2 + dictionaryName.length(), 0);
resultTextView.setText(styledResultText);

Now I want to set align for it. How to do? Android doesn't have any span class for alignment. I can't find out anything like "AlignmentSpan".

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score 52 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 31 '21 at 09:15

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Though its really late to answer, I assume that it might help someone at least. Add this to your code.

styledResultText.setSpan(
    new AlignmentSpan.Standard(Alignment.ALIGN_OPPOSITE), 
    text.length() + 2,
    text.length() + 2 + dictionaryName.length(), 
    Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE
);

Alignment.ALIGN_OPPOSITE is the equivalent for right side.

Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL is the equivalent for left side.

Note: This only works when there is at least 1 new-line character (\n) between the left & right-aligned text.

edited Oct 31 '21 at 09:15

hata

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answered Jul 23 '12 at 12:17

Andro Selva

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This definitely should be the accepted answer! This also works for centering text via Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER. – Brandon Jan 25 '13 at 20:42
For some reason I can't get this to work in my TextView. All the lines have the same alignment. – Mahm00d Jun 02 '14 at 15:03
Its not working. I have \n as well in middle of string – seema May 05 '16 at 12:50
How to it in one line? – M. Reza Nasirloo Jul 23 '16 at 21:01
Not working in one line sentence. Example: "Start Year 2016". "2016" won't alight to right. – Alex Oct 31 '16 at 18:38

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '12 at 16:14

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I think you should split the text into more than 1 string, put them into separated textview then align one by one.

Hope this helps.

answered Dec 12 '12 at 16:14

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John Leehey · Answer 3 · 2011-07-11T18:10:52.637

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If the resultText is always going to be right-aligned, add the gravity="right" attribute to your resultTextView instead of trying to right-align the text with styled spannable strings. This is assuming the grey text is within a separate TextView than your main text.

In xml for the result (grey) text:

<TextView android:id="@+id/resultTextView" 
    android:gravity="right" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" />

edited Jul 11 '11 at 18:10

answered Jul 11 '11 at 17:39

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No, I mean the black text left aligned and the gray text right aligned. I call it "multiple alignment". :) – emeraldhieu Jul 11 '11 at 17:45
You would need to separate the black text from the result text (have 2 separate textviews). – John Leehey Jul 11 '11 at 18:11

Multiple alignment in TextView?

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