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Android layout with wrap_content

I'm trying to create a custom list item layout but I encountered an issue. See the example below :
Effective functioning
The Issue
The problem is when the green rectangle fills all the blue box (width set as wrap_content) because the green square disappeared. The square has to be right of the green rectangle but the size of this rectangle can change and I can't fix the green square to the right of the blue box.
The red rectangles are fixed and they aren't a problem.
I use some LinearLayout and RelativeLayout to do this but it's not working as I wish.
I also can't use the drawableRight attribute because in the near future, there will be two icons (green square) instead of one.
If someone has already encountered this problem or has a way to solve this.
The wanted result is:
[[ListIconView] [[Some text here] [Icon]]< ..... blank space .....>[x] [y] [z]]
[[ListIconView] [[Long text from....... ] [Icon]]< . blank space ..>[x] [y] [z]]
[[ListIconView] [[A very long text from an older book....] [Icon]] [x] [y] [z]]
x, y and z are icons.

Assuming that red square and rectangle are not the problem (probably parent layout is RelativeLayout), and you have TextView and ImageView as green rectangle and green square, use
android:layout_weight="1"
for your TextView (green rectangle)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Some very looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong text here" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/my_image" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:weightSum="100">
<TextView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="20"
android:text="blablah"/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_weight="60"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:weightSum="100">
<TextView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="80"
android:text="test string string string"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="20"
android:text="String test"/>
</LinearLayout>
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="20"/>
</LinearLayout>
What I do above is that I assign space based on percentages for each of the item I want to fit in the root layout which is the LinearLayout, out of the total weightSum 100%. The ImageView will take 20% space, followed by another LinearLayout which will occupy 60%, and lastly the ImageButton which takes 20%, too

Space between textview and drawable icon

I'm facing problems with the position of an icon. I've set that icon as drawableLeft of a TextView, this is working fine but, if I set the TextView's gravity to center_horizontal, then a padding space appears between the icon and the text. The code is as follows:
<TextView
style="#style/BaseText.White.Bold"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/ic_text"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_text"
android:text="#string/text"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/margin_small"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/margin_big"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/margin_big"
android:padding="0dp"
android:drawablePadding="0dp"/>
What do I have to do to ensure that the icon is shown at the text's left side but horizontally centered?
I've make two screenshots to show you the difference when adding or removing the icon's gravity.
When the textview's gravity is not set, the result is as follows:
But, when the gravity is added, then a padding appears between the text and the icon:
Thanks in advance

Only add android:drawablePadding="10dp" field in your text view refer the coad
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Add New Address"
android:textAppearance="#style/Title"
android:id="#+id/tvAddNewAddress"
android:drawablePadding="20dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:padding="5dp"
android:textColor="#color/colorAccent"
android:drawableStart="#android:drawable/arrow_down_float"
/>

Try to give android:gravity="center" to Text View. Also add android:layout_width="wrap_content" and android:layout_height="wrap_content" properties in Text View.
Refer this.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:drawableLeft="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:drawablePadding="0dp"
android:drawableStart="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:gravity="center"
android:textSize="22sp"
android:padding="0dp"
android:text="TestingTestingTestingTestingTestingTestingTestingTestingTesting" />
</RelativeLayout>
This is what it showing.

Text being truncated in TextView with width set to wrap_content

I'm trying to create a simple component in my layout, where there are two TextViews horizontally next to each other. The one on the right should start where the one on the left finishes. My code for this is as follows:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textIsSelectable="false"
android:textSize="25sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="20sp" />
</LinearLayout>
I programmatically set the text on each TextView after the view has rendered. However, sometimes the text does not display correctly in the first TextView- I can see that the width has been set correctly, as the second TextView is not next to it, but the text is truncated rather than using the space. If I lock/unlock the device to refresh the screen then the text displays correctly (without the widths of the TextViews changing).
I've tried changing this to use a RelativeLayout, but I see the same issue.
Any ideas?

Although i dont understant what exactly you mean, would suggest you to use weightSum property in the parent view and android:layout_weight in child views. The same allows to put many child views inside a parent view with respect to ratio (like navigation tabs).
for eg :
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="1" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textIsSelectable="false"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:layout_weight="0.4" /> //60% width
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text2"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_weight="0.6" /> //40% width
</LinearLayout>
also, dont forget to put the width if child views as 0dp. as that will result in ignoring the calculations regarding the width of view. or you can set the width of child view as "match_parent" as well. any other property to width will not work. (and if you want half matchparent for both child views set layout_width to 0.5 both views.. ithink thats obvious to note)
Hopw it helps.

Android - Button text center gravity not working

I have this XML layout in my App (example of one button):
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/scrollViewMain"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#ffffff" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#fff0e8" >
///some views
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnVysledkySportka"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/chckSprotka"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/chckSprotka"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/chckSprotka"
android:layout_margin="3dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/textView3"
android:background="#ffe118"
android:gravity="center"
android:onClick="vysledkySportka"
android:text="Archiv výsledků"
android:textStyle="bold" />
///some views
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
But when I start my app at Android 4.3, the text of buttons isn´t in center of button. Look at the screenshot (in red rectangle):
Where can be problem?
EDIT:
Whole layout

When you specify:
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/chckSprotka"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/chckSprotka"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/chckSprotka"
It does make the bottom/right/top edge of your button match the bottom edge of the given anchor view ID & accommodates bottom/right/top margin, but while doing that, the android_gravity does not take the resultant height/width into consideration.
So the gravity of the text is center according to wrap_content for layout_height and layout_width.
You can verify that by setting values for layout_height and layout_width (Eg. 200dp and 100dp to try with) and you will get the text with gravity center but for that height and width.
To confirm the same, what you can do is use a container LinearLayout for your Button like:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/chckStastnych"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/chckStastnych"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/chckStastnych"
android:layout_margin="3dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/textView3"
android:background="#ffe118" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnVysledkyStastnych"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#ffe118"
android:gravity="center"
android:onClick="vysledkyStastnych"
android:text="Archiv výsledků"
android:textStyle="bold" />
</LinearLayout>
Set the gravity of LinearLayout as center and then center the Button within or as shown above, use layout_gravity for the button to center it in parent LinearLayout.
This will work as a solution when you do that for all 4 buttons, however there might be better options if you restructure your xml and avoid this kind of nesting.

Try This:
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnVysledkySportka"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/chckSprotka"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/chckSprotka"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/chckSprotka"
android:layout_margin="3dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/textView3"
android:background="#ffe118"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:onClick="vysledkySportka"
android:text="Archiv výsledků"
android:textStyle="bold" />

Center multiple items in a RelativeLayout without putting them in a container?

I have a RelativeLayout containing a pair of side-by-side buttons, which I want to be centered within the layout. I could just put the buttons in a LinearLayout and center that in the RelativeLayout, but I want to keep my xml as clean as possible.
Here's what I tried, this just puts the "apply" button in the center and the "undo" button to the left of it:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="15sp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/instructions"
android:text="#string/instructions"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="15sp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/apply"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/apply"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/undo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/undo"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/apply"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
</RelativeLayout>

android:gravity will align the content inside the view or layout it is used on.
android:layout_gravity will align the view or layout inside of his parent.
So adding
android:gravity="center"
to your RelativeLayout should do the trick...
Like this:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="15sp">
</RelativeLayout>

Here is an extension of BrainCrash's answer. It is a non nested option that groups and centers all three horizontally and vertically. In addition, it takes the top TextView and centers it horizontally across both buttons. If desired, you can then center the text within the TextView with android:gravity="center". I also removed the margins, added color, and set the RelativeLayout height to fill_parent to highlight the layout. Tested on API 11.
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:background="#android:color/black"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/instructions"
android:text="TEST"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:background="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/undo"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/apply"
android:gravity="center"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/apply"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="APPLY"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/undo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="UNDO"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/apply"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
</RelativeLayout>

android:layout_gravity="center"
will almost give what you're looking for.

Here is a combination of the above answer's that solved my specific situation:
Centering two separate labels within a layout that also includes a button in the left most position of the same layout (button, label, label, from left to right, where the labels are centered relative to the layout containing all three views - that is, the button doesn't push the labels off center).
I solved this by nesting two RelativeLayout's, where the outer most layout included the
Button and an Inner-RelativeLayout.
The Inner-RelativeLayout contained the two text labels (TextView's).
Here is a snippet that provides the details of how the centering and other layout stuff was done:
see: RelativeLayout Gravity not applied? and
Gravity and layout_gravity on Android
for the difference's between gravity and layout_gravity.
Tweak the paddingLeft on the btn_button1 Button to see that the TextView's do not move.
(My apologies to havexz for the downvotes. I was too hasty in thinking that just b/c your suggestions didn't solve the exact question being ask, that they do help to solve very similar situations (the answer here solves a very specific situation, and only the combination of all these answer's solved my problem. I tried upvoting, but it won't let me unless I edit the answer's, which I don't want to do.)
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/rl_outer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="50dip"
android:background="#FF0000FF">
<Button
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/btn_button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF00FF00"
android:text="<"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:paddingLeft="40dip"/>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/rl_inner"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FFFF00FF"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center">
<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/tv_text1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF505050"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
android:text="Complaint #"
android:gravity="center"/>
<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/tv_text2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF505050"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/tv_text1"
android:gravity="center"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

LinearLayout is a good option. Other than that there are options like create an invisible view and center that and then align left button to the left it and right on the right of it. BUT those are just work arounds.