Android Layout - Align To Right Without Wrapping And Reserving Space

What I thought would be a fairly straightforward layout is not turning out to be. I have several rows in a linear layout. Each row has a 'title', a 'tag' and a 'description'. The d

Solution 1:

I think this is the layout you're after:

publicclassTableLayoutCustomextendsTableLayout {

    publicTableLayoutCustom(Context context) {
        super(context);

        this.setColumnShrinkable(0, true);
        this.setColumnStretchable(1, true);

        TableRowrow1=newTableRow(context);

        TableRow.LayoutParamslp=newTableRow.LayoutParams(
                LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        TextViewtitle=newTextView(context);
        title.setText("Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum ");

        title.setId(1);
        row1.addView(title, lp);

        lp.setMargins(20, 0, 0, 0);
        TextViewtag=newTextView(context);
        tag.setText("TAG ME");
        row1.addView(tag, lp);

        this.addView(row1);

        TableRowrow2=newTableRow(context);
        TableRow.LayoutParamstlp=newTableRow.LayoutParams(
                LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        tlp.span = 2;
        TextViewdescription=newTextView(context);
        description.setText("Description here");
        description.setId(2);
        row2.addView(description, tlp);

        this.addView(row2);
    }

}

If you change the text on the title to something shorter you will see that the tag"follows" the title.

Solution 2:

after a few more tries, including a linear layout with a table layout enclosing the title and tag, and the description as a child of the linear layout, i'll post what I'm using for now.

while this comes close, i'm still open to a better answer:

using right margin on the title and negative left margin of an equal amount on the tag does accomplish the basic idea, it assumes I know the size of the tag. If I allow say 100 pixels, and the tag text is longer than that, it'll wrap. This isn't a huge deal for this particular setup (since I have a predictable set of tags), I'd still be interested to know the "correct" approach.