Android below 4.2 how to set layoutDirection to be RTL

Question

trying to set the layout elements to be RTL ordered

in 4.2 and above the line: layoutDirection=\"rtl\" and in the manifest: android:supportsRtl=\"true

Answer 1

You won't be able to. It was added to in API Level 17 which is 4.2 so the older versions do not support it.