Can you make an EditText input from right to left?

Question

I was wondering if you can control input on an EditText to move from right to left? The EditText would have to support insert/delete etc. from right to left as well. Is th

Answer 1

The right way is to use:

android:textAlignment="viewStart"

As it will automatically work for LTR and RTL.

Answer 2

Add this to your editText

        android:textDirection="rtl"

Answer 3

try the below code

AutoCompleteTextView autoCompleteTextView = findViewById(R.id.main_searchBar);
autoCompleteTextView.setGravity(Gravity.RIGHT);

Answer 4

There is the manual way to do it by using the following code :

@Override
public boolean onKeyUp(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {

    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU) {
        // Each time click Menu button on the bar
        // Set the cursor to the first index
        mEtEmail.setSelection(0); // YOUR EDIT TEXT
    } 

    return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);
}

p/s : Or you can change

KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU

follow your wishes,

Or you can try with Bidi.

Thanks,