TextView go off screen in RelativeLayout

Question

Here is the layout:

Answer 1

You can avoid all of this by giving each textview a width of match_parent and an appropriate layout_weight. The below code will give you exactly what you need. Enjoy!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal">
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="3"
            android:text="Test 1"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="line too long line too long line too long line too long line too long "/>
        </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal">
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="3"
            android:text="Test 2"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="line too long line too long line too long line too long line too long "/>
    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 2

The answer is easy. Just 3 lines of XML code. In your textview, place the following lines:

<TextView
  android:layout_width = "match_parent"
  android:layout_height = "wrap_content"
  android:width = "0dp"/>

Answer 3

This is because your textView width is wrap_content. So means if your text is too long then it will be out of screen. So better way is to set it to match_parent.

And Yes if it is too long then you can set MaxLines for it.