Align Textview to the right in a Linearlayout in Android Studio

Question

Hello, I’m a beginner in Android Studio, and I had a problem with alignment, I already took a look at similar questions but could not solve the problem. My layout is like this:

I need to leave Altitude, Latitude and Longitude to the left and the numbers, latitudeTest and longitudeTest to the right, more or less like this:

Altitude: 10.0
Latitude: latitudeTest
Longitude: longitudeTest

My code is like this

<LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/item_horizontal_margin"
            android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/item_horizontal_margin"
            android:orientation="vertical">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/name"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                <!--Altitude:-->
                android:text="@string/lb_altitude" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                <!--10.0:-->
                android:text="@={``+waypoint.altitude}" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/lb_latitude"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                <!--Latitude:-->
                android:text="@string/lb_latitude" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_below="@id/lb_latitude"
                android:text="latitudeTest" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/lb_longitude"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                <!--Longitude:-->
                android:text="@string/lb_longitude" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_below="@id/lb_longitude"
                android:text="longitudeTeste" />
        </LinearLayout>

I appreciate suggestions and help! Thank you

Answer 1

There are several ways to get the result you want:

Using only Linearlayout

The simplest way, following the approach you have already started to implement, would be the following:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="TextView" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="end"
        android:text="TextView" />

</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="TextView" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="end"
        android:text="TextView" />

</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="TextView" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="end"
        android:text="TextView" />

</LinearLayout>

In the code snippet above, a Linearlayout is used with the orienteering vertical (so that your child items are arranged one below the other), where within it are placed X lines, composed by a Linearlayout with horizontal orientation (this orientation is the default, so you do not need to declare it), with two Textviews inside, each with the attribute Weight = 1, which makes both Textviews have the same weight within the parent layout.

There are other forms, with Relativelayout or Constraintlayout, but the idea is this from above.