How to make the text direction from right to left

Question

I want to write text in (right to left language i.e. Arabic) in a TextView. But I want to make the text writing direction from right to left. gravity:rightwill

Answer 1

By using attributes as below in my xml code strangely I got a right to left text with correct punctuation. But this is not a perfect solution for multi language text:

android:textDirection="ltr"
android:gravity="right"

setting ltr corrects punctuation problems like having dot on right side instead of left.

gravity attribute makes text flow from right to left.