Arabic language words wrong displaying: left to right

Question

i'm trying to display an arabic text (Right to Left) in my app, but i get words displayed left to right in lines.

I'm using an arabic supporting font and arabic reshaper lib. The text is loaded from strings file.

The app support Android 2.1.

Here a screen shot for the result:

Arabic Text wrong display

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public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private TextView tvtest = null;
private static Typeface typeface;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    tvtest = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvtest);
    tvtest.setText(ArabicUtilities.reshape(getString(R.string.first_part)));
    Typeface tf;
    tf = GetFont(getApplicationContext());
    tvtest.setTypeface(tf);
}

public static final Typeface GetFont(Context context) {
    if (typeface == null) {
        typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(),
                // "DroidSansFallback.ttf");
                "MSHQW.TTF");
    }
    return typeface;
}

}

Have you tried this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7874409/4224337 ? — Rami, Feb 02 '15 at 17:07
@njzk2 If you use ArabicReshaper it works but with problems in words order. — Med_mofid, Feb 02 '15 at 17:31
I have used ArabicReshaper a couple of years ago, but I don't remember anything about word order issue. can you post the code where you are reshaping the text? — njzk2, Feb 02 '15 at 18:01
@Rami could you give me more details how to use Bidi please? — Med_mofid, Feb 02 '15 at 18:59
@Mohammad Abu Hmead could you please help i saw you had a similar problem before — Med_mofid, Feb 04 '15 at 22:03
@Med_mofid I know its old issue but did you find any solution for this? — smbdy, Jun 29 '22 at 09:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '15 at 17:11

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Try to set gravity of your TextView.

in code:

`textView.setGravity(...);

or in XML:

android:gravity="..."

answered Feb 02 '15 at 17:11

GIGAMOLE

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The problem is with words display order not text gravity. – Med_mofid Feb 02 '15 at 17:29
In what direction do you get the text? 5-4-3-2-1? – GIGAMOLE Feb 02 '15 at 18:13

Arabic language words wrong displaying: left to right

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