How to prevent overlapping in relative layout programmatically?

How can I prevent views from overlapping in relative layout?

• Right now I have two textViews one on aligned to the left of the relative layout and one aligned to the right. The text on the left is much longer than that on the right. On some occasions, the text on the left is two lines. When this happens this text overlaps the text that is aligned to the right. Is there anyway to prevent this? Or is there a way to say if the text on the left is two lines put the text on the right on the second line? I'm having trouble with name and time down here: <RelativeLayout android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/relativeLayout" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <TextView android:text="TextView" android:id="@+id/name" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="10sp" android:textStyle="bold" android:textSize="16sp"></TextView> <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/address" android:text="address" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="@+id/name" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/name" android:layout_marginLeft="30sp"></TextView> <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/address" android:text="" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignTop="@+id/address" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/address" android:id="@+id/crossStreet"></TextView> <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/time" android:text="Time" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_marginRight="10sp"></TextView> </RelativeLayout>

• Answer:

  Could you instead contain those two TextViews within a horizontal LinearLayout (which itself would still be a child of your RelativeLayout). Then, assign appropriate weight attributes to each of the two TextViews within that LinearLayout.