Set LayoutDirection (RTL) for api lower than 17

Question

I am going to build a Persian app (RTL). my app includes a ListView and a Navigation Drawer .

I added in Manifest in application tag

Answer 1

Just concatenate every string that you want to set in textView with "\u202B"

it just enforces the text to be RTL.

String textWhichIsLTR = "LTR or RTL text that you want to enforce to RTL";
String enforcedRTL = textWhichIsLTR + "\u202B";
fooTextView.setText(enforcedRTL);

Answer 2

use ViewCompat from android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat !

like this :

ViewCompat.setLayoutDirection (View yourView, int layoutDirection)

layoutDirection is a constant from ViewCompat class