I\'m creating a custom list item in and android list view. it\'s very simple, it has a textview on the left and an image on the right. the image should align all the way right,
Relative layout is what you want. In your case the fill_parent attribute was causing the text view to push the image off of the screen. If you use Relative layout and set the text view to use the layout_toLeftOf it should work.
Here is a quick example that I think will work (I haven't tested it out and it's from memory but the idea is there)...