Android Layout Right Align

The layout is extremely inefficient and bloated. You don't need that many LinearLayouts. In fact you don't need any LinearLayout at all.

Use only one RelativeLayout. Like this.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <ImageButton android:background="@null"
        android:id="@+id/back"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/back"
        android:padding="10dip"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"/>
    <ImageButton android:background="@null"
        android:id="@+id/forward"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/forward"
        android:padding="10dip"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@id/back"/>
    <ImageButton android:background="@null"
        android:id="@+id/special"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/barcode"
        android:padding="10dip"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>

You can do all that by using just one RelativeLayout (which, btw, don't need android:orientation parameter). So, instead of having a LinearLayout, containing a bunch of stuff, you can do something like:

<RelativeLayout>
    <ImageButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/the_first_one"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"/>
    <ImageButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/the_first_one"/>
    <ImageButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>

As you noticed, there are some XML parameters missing. I was just showing the basic parameters you had to put. You can complete the rest.

If you want to use LinearLayout, you can do alignment with layout_weight with Space element.

E.g. following layout places textView and textView2 next to each other and textView3 will be right-aligned

<LinearLayout
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
        android:text="Medium Text"
        android:id="@+id/textView" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
        android:text="Medium Text"
        android:id="@+id/textView2" />

    <Space
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_height="20dp" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
        android:text="Medium Text"
        android:id="@+id/textView3" />
</LinearLayout>

you can achieve the same effect without Space if you would set layout_weight to textView2. It's just that I like things more separated, plus to demonstrate Space element.

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
        android:text="Medium Text"
        android:id="@+id/textView2" />

Note that you should (not must though) set layout_width explicitly as it will be recalculated according to it's weight anyway (same way you should set height in elements of vertical LinearLayout). For other layout performance tips see Android Layout Tricks series.

Android Layout Right Align

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