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

Add these to your editText:

android:gravity="right"
android:textDirection="rtl"

PS: android:textDirection requires API level 17

Answer 2

set this line in xml for textview :

 android:textDirection="locale"

Answer 3

Try using

 textview.setTextDirection(View.TEXT_DIRECTION_RTL);

or

 textview.setTextDirection(View.TEXT_DIRECTION_ANY_RTL);

Answer 4

try this as it worked for me android:textDirection="rtl"

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

just adding my own experience with such issues. in my case in addition to suggested solutions i also had to replace English " character with the RTL (in my case hebrew) representation of such character ״