Java – Make one word always superior to another in a TextView

I

have an app that is an app that collects Christian songs for youth and now I want to add chords. So, let’s say I have the following line in the .txt file:

     D         G             D            

Strange grace! What a sweet sound

This

always happens when the lines don’t fit the screen :

D

GD

Strange Grace!

The sound is so sweet

I hope this happens:

D

Strange Grace!

GD

The sound is so sweet!

Sorry for not making it clear, I really hope this makes sense. I’ve seen other apps do this, but I don’t know how.

Edit:

My song is structured as follows:

[chord of phrase].

[phrase]

Matt offers a great explanation of how your data should be structured. I’ll just add the implementation details.

Suppose the format of the input data is as follows:

[Chord Name]
[phrase for chords].

You can use horizontal RecyclerView to display data. The layout of each item looks like

<LinearLayout 
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
   <TextView 
     android:id="@+id/tv_chord_name"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
     />
   <TextView
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:id="@+id/tv_phrase"/>
</LinearLayout>

I’ve only added a few properties to show the structure. You can use layout_gravity="center_horizontal" for the first TextView to center the chord name with the lyrics.

The way it works is to set the width of the LinearLayout to wrap_content, which effectively means that it will be the same length as the longest child of the second TextView in your case.

Now layout_gravity="center_horizontal" will automatically center the first TextView based on the length of the LinearLayout, which is exactly what you need. So there is no need to add spaces to align the content