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Keep ImageView on the right size of the text and yet prevent long text to push it out of view?

The situation is the same no matter if I use LinearLayout or RelativeLayout. I think this is a old Android XMl bug, but I have no idea why it still exists.
Namely, in a layout where an ImageView is on the right side of a TextView can disappear from the screen when text becomes too long. It simply pushes it off the screen. I must NOT make TextView single line.
Here is the XML.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="some long text blahblahblahblahblah"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textSize="17sp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/key"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
I cannot use layout_weight attribute as image will then stick to the right side of the screen. It HAS to be on the right side of the text.
Anyone has any ideas how to solve this bug?
Check images when the text is short and long. On the 2nd image the text is long and the image is being pushed away from the screen.

You can achieve your task, if you use the layout_weight properly. Please refer the code below:
<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:id="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. As you can see it easily handles the long length of the text"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textSize="17sp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher"
/>
</LinearLayout>
The output for long text:
The output for short text:
EDIT:
This works because of the layout whose width is set as wrap_content. If it were match_parent then in all cases, all the extra space would have been given to TextView because of it's layout_weight but since the parent is wrap_content, there is no extra space for the TextView to fill when the text is small. But when the text is large, the weight property is applied to the TextView but since there is no layout_weight for the ImageView hence, it takes only the amount of space it has to.

Set
android:layout_marginRight="30dp"
for the TextView
and
android:layout_marginLeft="-20dp"
for the ImageView
You can change the values depending on your needs.
But, if the image can have different sizes, you will have to set margins programmatically.

there is 2 solutions for these
either set the image as a drawableRight to the textview
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. As you can see it easily handles the long length of the text"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textSize="17sp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:drawableRight="#drawable/ic_launcher"
/>
or
alignt the image to right and make textview toleft of the image

Texts always in center and right, how?

I am sorry I know it's simple question but I can't make this happen now.
I want one text always will be in center and another in right.
But when texts is too loo long they come to each other.
Let's say I want second text always be in the right and first text is in center but when one of these texts is too long the centered texts have to move left.
How could I do this?
I write this but it doesn't work properly.
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/workout_footer_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/workout_header_height"
android:background="#color/green"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/review_comments_label"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#color/text_color_white"
android:textSize="#dimen/review_top_text_size"
android:singleLine="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/review_write_label"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity="center"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/review_write_label"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#color/text_color_white"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
android:textSize="#dimen/review_top_text_size"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Instead of layout_toLeftOf="#+id/review_write_label" in your first TextView, remove that line and add layout_toRightOf="#id/review_comments_label" to your second TextView to make sure the first view stays centered and the second view stays to the right.
Update
Then make the second view's width match parent and set it's gravity to right. This will right justify the text in a container that stretches from the right edge of the centered TextView to the right edge of the parent thanks to the match_parent width.

You can try this:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="text1" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="text2" />
</LinearLayout>

Relative Layout giving a lot of trouble

Here's the code:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/tc"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/tc"
android:layout_marginLeft="185dip"
android:layout_marginTop="25dip"
>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/tc_icon"
android:background="#drawable/count_icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/tc"
android:layout_mar
/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tc_icon_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dip"
android:text="1"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:textColor="#f7e906"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
I have somehow managed to make the image and the text views overlap each other (which I wanted). Now, I want them to be placed to the bottom left corner of their parent RelativeLayout (with id 'tc').... However, they just wouldn't move.
If I used alignParentBottom.... the entire relative layout stretches across the screen and aligns to its parent relativeLayout.
Please help. Thanks! :)

If you wanna overlap an image and a textview, simplw use a android:drawableleft or ony position where you want.
For example:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tc_icon_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dip"
android:text="1"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:textColor="#f7e906"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:drawableleft="#drawable/yourimage.jpg"/>
This will give you an image on the left of your textview. Check it out

TextView text aligment is horrible! How to work around it?

I always seem to have the biggest issues with aligning a text on a layout. Seems like the TextView doesn't measure its text properly. The reported TextView width and height are a lot bigger than the actual text. One would expect the TextView width and height to be tightly wrapped around the text.
The image below shows how the number 18 and the text "SEC" are not aligning on the same bottom baseline. This is due to the larger text height being a lot bigger than the text is. My xml layout can be seen below.
How to achieve better text alignment accuracy?
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#drawable/scan_block_1_bg" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/staticCountDown"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvStaticScanning"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:shadowColor="#ffffff"
android:shadowDy="1.0"
android:shadowRadius="0.01"
android:text="SCANNING"
android:textColor="#878787"
android:textSize="20sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvCountDown"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:shadowColor="#66000000"
android:shadowDy="-1.0"
android:shadowRadius="0.01"
android:text="03"
android:textColor="#b6b6b6"
android:textSize="81sp" />
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvStaticSeconds"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/staticCountDown"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/staticCountDown"
android:gravity="left"
android:shadowColor="#ffffff"
android:shadowDy="1.0"
android:shadowRadius="0.01"
android:text="SEC"
android:textColor="#878787"
android:textSize="12sp" />
</RelativeLayout>

//use this attribute in your TextView
android:layout_alignBaseline="#id/staticCountDown"
and android:layout_marginBottom="-10dp"

As strange as it may sound if you look at the screen shot provided Both the textviews have the same bottom base alignment. Try putting letters "gj" in tv countdown. You can actually see both will come to have same bottom base alignment. Its better go with padma Kumar's answer.

Centering a TextView while keeping it to the right of a button?

I'm pretty sure I've done this before, but I've forgotten how.
Here's the problem:
I've got a button and a textview, and I want the textview to be centered, while the button is on the left side.
No problem? Just put them in a relativelayout, make the textview centerinparent, and the button alignparentleft.
But now I'm going to dynamically change the text, so it can potentially be written on top of the button! I'll just add toRightOf="#id/button" on the textview. No, now it's no longer centered.
I wish I could provide a screenshot, but it seems the computer is out of memory and can't do that.
Here's some code: http://pastebin.com/3N70Vjre (Since I can't paste xml...?)
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/header"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/leftbutton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="text!"
/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/toptext"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/leftbutton"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:text="Text!"
android:singleLine="true"
/>
</RelativeLayout>

Try this (unfortunately I'm at work so can't jump into Eclipse to get you some code) -
Change the layout_width of the TextView to fill_parent.
Set the gravity of the TextView to center (so the text centers inside the TextView)
Set the layout_weight of the Button to 1 and the layout_weight of the TextView to 2. Note that you may have to fudge with these numbers to get the layout you're looking for.
This should center the text of the TextView after the Button, though it will not center the TextView itself. You can accomplish that by replacing the TextView with a container (Linear/Relative Layout) and doing the same method as above on the Layout instead of the TextView. You would then put your TextView inside the container and set the container's gravity to "center".
Hope this helps point you in the right direction :)

You can try this (pseudo-code):
<RelativeLayout>
<Button>
<LinearLayout toLeftOf="toptext" type="horizontal">
<TextView gravity="center">
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
You might have to have the LinearLayout as width="fill_parent". Not sure if that will work nor not. You can subsequently try some of the things listed here: http://thinkandroid.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/how-to-position-views-properly-in-layouts/

Try declaring the TextView first, then aligning the button to the left of the text view. Keep in mind you may run into issues if the TextView becomes too wide.
EDIT: I see, so you're trying to do something sort of like the iPhone's header with back/next buttons (similar anyway). Try this modification. I still believe you're going to run into issues if the TextView gets large enough to hit the Button, though.
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/header"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/toptext"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:layout_alignParentCenter="true"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:text="Text!"
android:singleLine="true"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/leftbutton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:text="text!"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
Try this FrameLayout instead. This may do more what you're expecting:
<FrameLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/toptext"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:text="Text!"
android:singleLine="true"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/leftbutton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Text!"
/>
</FrameLayout>