Two TextViews side by side, only one to ellipsize?

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I want to have two TextView elements appear side by side (in a list item), one aligned to the left, one to the right. Something like:

|<TextView>               <TextView>|

(the | represent the screen's extremities)

However, the TextView on the left can have content that is too long to fit on the screen. In this case, I want to have it ellipsize but still show the entire right TextView. Something like:

|This is a lot of conte...<TextView>|

I have had numerous attempts at this, using both LinearLayout and RelativeLayout, and the only solution I have come up with is to use a RelativeLayout and put a marginRight on the left TextView big enough to clear the right TextView. As you can imagine, though, this is not optimal.

Are there any other solutions?

Final, LinearLayout solution:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    >
    <TextView
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:inputType="text"
        />
    <TextView
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="0"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:inputType="text"
        />
</LinearLayout>

Old, TableLayout solution:

<TableLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:stretchColumns="1"
    android:shrinkColumns="0"
    >
    <TableRow>
        <TextView android:id="@+id/title"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:singleLine="true"
            />
        <TextView android:id="@+id/date"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:ellipsize="none"
            android:gravity="right"
            />
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>
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7 Answers

Solution with ConstraintLayout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="8dp">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/leftText"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:maxLines="1"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@id/rightText"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        tools:text="This is a lot of content that should be cut" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/rightText"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        tools:text="Right text" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

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user_27178210

When I faced with the sililar issue, I did following: I needed:

|<TextView, may be long> <TextViewFixedSize>      |
|<TextView, may be longer ...> <TextViewFixedSize>|
|<TextViewLong> <TextViewFixedSize>               |

You may use a solution like this:

<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    android:id="@+id/layoutRecommendedServiceDescription"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/textViewRecommendedServiceTitle"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/textViewRecommendedServiceTitle">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textViewRecommendedService1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:lines="1"
        android:maxLines="1"
        app:layout_constrainedWidth="true"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="packed"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/textViewRecommendedServicePopular"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        tools:text="Long text"
        tools:visibility="visible" />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textViewRecommendedServicePopular"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
        android:lines="1"
        android:text="@string/services_popular"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/textViewRecommendedService1"
        app:layout_goneMarginStart="0dp"
        tools:visibility="visible" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
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