I used Arabic text so,
I want to write text from right to left so how i can write right to left text in android ?
Regards,
Girish
Try with Bidi
Declare in your app manifest that your app supports RTL mirroring: add android:supportsRtl="true" to the element in your manifest file.
Change all of your app's "left/right" layout properties to new "start/end" equivalents.
Native RTL support in Android 4.2
It looks like this is only possible starting with jelly bean
use this
android:textDirection="rtl"
android:gravity="right"
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I've made an app, I've tested it and it was fine on my phone. But... when I gave the .apk to someone else whose phone language is RTL the whole layout broke and it messed up everything.
My question is - How can I force my app to use only LTR and disable the auto layout change which breaks my whole app design?
In your manifest file and inside the application tag add these two lines.
<manifest>
<application
.
.
.
android:supportsRtl="false"
tools:replace="android:supportsRtl" //(replace libraries' Rtl support with ours)
>
</application>
</manifest>
Note: (about second line)
Some libraries have support Rtl in their manifest file so if you want to use those libraries you must replace their manifest line of code with yours.
Android 4.2 added full native support for RTL layouts. To take advantage of RTL layout mirroring, simply make the following changes to your app:
Declare in your app manifest that your app supports RTL mirroring.
Specifically, add android:supportsRtl="true" to the
element in your manifest file.
Change all of your app's "left/right" layout properties to new
"start/end" equivalents. If you are targeting your app to Android 4.2
(the app's targetSdkVersion or minSdkVersion is 17 or higher), then
you should use “start” and “end” instead of “left” and “right”. For
example, android:paddingLeft should become android:paddingStart. If
you want your app to work with versions earlier than Android 4.2 (the
app's targetSdkVersion or minSdkVersion is 16 or less), then you
should add “start” and end” in addition to “left” and “right”. For
example, you’d use both android:paddingLeft and android:paddingStart.
For more precise control over your app UI in both LTR and RTL mode, Android 4.2 includes the following new APIs to help manage View components:
android:layoutDirection — attribute for setting the direction of a
component's layout.
android:textDirection — attribute for setting the
direction of a component's text.
android:textAlignment — attribute
for setting the alignment of a component's text.
getLayoutDirectionFromLocale() — method for getting the
Locale-specified direction
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Just add the following to the manifest
android:supportsRtl="false"
tools:replace="android:supportsRtl"
Just add something like this in your App Theme Style:
<item name="android:layoutDirection">ltr</item>
or
<item name="android:layoutDirection">rtl</item>
For React Native adding the following line in the manifest file was enough:
// android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.kidspodmobileclient">
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<application
android:supportsRtl="false" // <== add this line here
It would be like the following screenshot:
RN version: 0.68.2
I have a normal Textview which contains both Arabic and English texts.
Below is the original text
"unit_label_text": "محتوى 0.4kg (€ 10.00 / 1Kg)",
When I try to paste it inside of xml it's like the below and the mobile app itself showing the same.
Note: When the device language is English it's working fine. But if I changed the device language to Arabic. It's not working,
When you use the Arabic language the app automatically uses the RTL format so you can consider disabling the RTL (Right to Left) format for your app.
In your manifest file and inside the application tag add these two lines.
<manifest>
<application
.
.
.
android:supportsRtl="false"
tools:replace="android:supportsRtl"
>
</application>
Or else try removing this code from your XML
android:layoutDirection="rtl"
I am developing an app which supports two languages: English("en") and Persian("fa"). I have set android:supportsRtl="false" in AndroidManifest.xml since I need everything to be from left to right. I set margins for all views that I have but for the ones containing a string, it is not working right and it still seems like it is setting the directions from right to left. How can I fix that? I also tried changing the layoutDirection manually to left to right but that did not work either.
You must handle your locale in all activities. Android by default uses the locale of the device to select the appropriate language dependent resources.
Also you must consider project minimum sdk. I recommended to you change it to 16 or higher: minSdkVersion 16
Maybe this link help you.
I set margins for all views that I have but for the ones containing a string, it is not working right
For this for example you must use from android:layout_marginEnd instead of android:layout_marginRight. Also in default create your layout for en locale and then handle and change it by app locale to fa or another locale.
You have to use instead of the right from the end and instead of the left from the start
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="تست"
android:gravity="start"/>
I've been trying to make a ListView to work as RTL (Right to Left).
I've added the following line in the ListView and LinearLayout properties:
android:layoutDirection="rtl"
and it still shows the list from left to right.
Any ideas?
Thank you all but I solved it with:
android:textDirection="rtl"
I've added it to the ListView and the layouts, and it worked. Next time you should try considering using this too for RTL layouts.
To take advantage of RTL layout mirroring, simply make the following changes to your app:
Declare in your app manifest that your app supports RTL mirroring.
Specifically, add android:supportsRtl="true" to the <application> element in your manifest file.
Change all of your app's left/right layout properties to new start/end equivalents.
If you are targeting your app to Android 4.2 (the app's
targetSdkVersion or minSdkVersion is 17 or higher), then you should
use start and end instead of left and right. For example,
android:paddingLeft should become android:paddingStart.
If you want your app to work with versions earlier than Android 4.2
(the app's targetSdkVersion or minSdkVersion is 16 or less), then you
should add start and end in addition to left and right. For
example, you’d use both android:paddingLeft and android:paddingStart.
RTL layout support feature is supported on Android 4.2(API level 17) or above only . Please Add android:layout_gravity="left/right" in your parent Layout . And also allow android:textAlignment.
Set minSdkVersion=17
Please read http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#attr_android:layoutDirection
This will automatically adjust according to the device locale
android:textDirection="locale"
I need to add localization features to my app for RTL languages (hebrew and arabic)
How can I modify the layout in order for the picture to be aligned differently in the RTL option?
For example: in the main menu I got buttons on the left side and pic on the right (in the LTR version) I need to reverse it and not only change the pictures
find the localization label for RTL languages then save their custom layout xml files under the folder "res/layout-RtlLabel/customLayout.xml". For example "layout-fr"... look here for more info
you can use
android:layoutDirection="locale"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"