LinearLayout horizontal not working correctly

Question

I try to add custom quotation marks in my TextView. I create LinearLayout with horizontal and add start/end custom textview. Here is my source

            <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/description_container"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/dimen_p_30"
            android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/dimen_p_25"
            android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/dimen_p_30"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center"
                android:fontFamily="@font/helvetica_regular"
                android:gravity="top"
                android:text="“"
                android:textColor="#E8E9EF"
                android:textSize="@dimen/dimen_p_46" />
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/descriptionTextView"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center"
                android:fontFamily="@font/myriad_geo_medium"
                android:gravity="top"
                android:maxLines="150"
                android:text="test message"
                android:textColor="@color/gray"
                android:textSize="@dimen/dimen_p_14" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center"
                android:fontFamily="@font/helvetica_regular"
                android:gravity="bottom"
                android:text="”"
                android:textColor="#E8E9EF"
                android:textSize="@dimen/dimen_p_46" />

        </LinearLayout>

Everything is working perfect but when my descriptionTextView has large text and it need two lines, 3th textview does not showing.Is a any way to solve this problem or does my way is a correct? Thanks

check this https://stackoverflow.com/a/52440662/7666442 – AskNilesh Feb 12 '19 at 11:58 — AskNilesh, Feb 12 '19 at 11:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 12 '19 at 13:59

Use weight for your TextViews like this

   <LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/description_container"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/dimen_p_30"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/dimen_p_25"
    android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/dimen_p_30"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:weightSum="3"
    >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:fontFamily="@font/helvetica_regular"
        android:gravity="top"
        android:text="“"
        android:textColor="#E8E9EF"
        android:textSize="@dimen/dimen_p_46" />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/descriptionTextView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:fontFamily="@font/myriad_geo_medium"
        android:gravity="top"
        android:maxLines="150"
        android:text="test message"
        android:textColor="@color/gray"
        android:textSize="@dimen/dimen_p_14" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:fontFamily="@font/helvetica_regular"
        android:gravity="bottom"
        android:text="”"
        android:textColor="#E8E9EF"
        android:textSize="@dimen/dimen_p_46" />

</LinearLayout>

Please follow this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7452741/what-is-androidweightsum-in-android-and-how-does-it-work — Sandeep dhiman, Feb 12 '19 at 12:04
I think this answer is incorrect because test message showing in 3lines — BekaKK, Feb 12 '19 at 12:05

karan · Answer 2 · 2019-02-12T12:34:53.443

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Add your complete text with Exclamations to only one TextView. Use Spannable string to set color to exclamations.

TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mytextview01);    
String mText = textView.getText();
Spannable wordtoSpan = new SpannableString(mText);          
wordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 0, 1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);    
wordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), (mText.Length()-2), (mText.Length()-1), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);    
textView.setText(wordtoSpan);

edited Feb 12 '19 at 12:34

answered Feb 12 '19 at 12:09

karan

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Yes you are right but last quotation not showing textview's end – BekaKK Feb 12 '19 at 12:13
do you want your exclaimations to be of different color than you text? – karan Feb 12 '19 at 12:16
I just to want to add exclaimations end/start position with different colors and different textsize – BekaKK Feb 12 '19 at 12:22

LinearLayout horizontal not working correctly

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