How to right-align text in an Android TextView or EditText?

Question

I have an EditText in my application. I want to align the text in it to the right instead of the default left. I tried adding

android:layout_gravity=\"right         


        

Answer 1

You may use android:layout_alignParentRight="true" to align the EditText's right edge to its parent's right edge. Also, if you really want to use the layout_gravity or gravity attributes, check out this article that discusses the proper use of them.