Hi,
here I have a part of my layout, where I want to position a checkbox
to the right of the screen while it with two lines of text. I was
trying to mimic the look of the layout on the settings pages in the
emulator.
Here is the layout XML:
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="4dp">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="2dp">
<TextView
android:text="Use colored text"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</TextView>
<TextView
android:text="Check to output colored text"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</TextView>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="right"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="2dp">
<CheckBox
android:id="@+id/check"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</CheckBox>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Now this works fine, but I was wondering why I need to wrap the
checkbox in another LinearLayout to actually get it to stick to the
right side. If I would remove the LinearLayout that's wrapping the
checkbox, it wouldn't be at the right side of the screen, even if I
would put gravity="right" in the checkbox properties. Any idea why? Or
any suggestion on how to create this layout more efficiently? Thank in
advance!
Cheers, Matt
