How to right align PreferencesActivity in android?

Question

I have PreferencesActivity which I need it to be right aligned because I want to use Arabic language, I tried to use android:layout_gravity=\"right\"

Answer 1

Alright, this might be quite late, but anyways if you are targeting Android 3.0 or higher, you should use PreferenceFragment with can be somehow made RTL.

So you should create a fragment in your code like this:

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceFragment;

public class SettingsFragment extends PreferenceFragment {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
    }
}

now you should create an Activity that adds this fragment to its layout. You can create a layout for your activity and put the fragment in it via xml element or using the FragmentManager class. But the key to make the preferences Right-To-Left is to put a layout_direction="rtl" attribute in the layout file for a parent element of the fragment. i.e.

Notice the android:layoutDirection="rtl" on the RelativeLayout element that fixes the problem.

Now add the Activity Java code like any other activity and add to your manifest file.

Hope it's not too late :)