EditText Label?

Question

I want to have some layout a bit like this

[text tabel][edittext]

i cant find an attribute like html esque label. It seems to be the case that i need to use

[TextView][EditText]

but i cant get them to go on the same line this is my xml file.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">"
<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/boat_1"/>
<EditText
    android:id="@+id/entry"
    android:hint="@string/IRC"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"/>
<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/boat_2"/>
<EditText
    android:id="@+id/entry"
    android:hint="@string/IRC"
    android:minWidth="100dip"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"/>
<Button android:id="@+id/close"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:text="@string/title_close" />

Answer 1

You have basically two options:

Use nested LinearLayouts:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
android:orientation="vertical" 
android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content"> 
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal" 
android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:text="@string/boat_1"/> 
<EditText 
    android:id="@+id/entry" 
    android:hint="@string/IRC" 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"/> 
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal" 
android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:text="@string/boat_2"/> 
<EditText 
    android:id="@+id/entry" 
    android:hint="@string/IRC" 
    android:minWidth="100dip" 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"/> 
</LinearLayout>
<Button android:id="@+id/close" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" 
    android:text="@string/title_close" /> 

Notice that I'm using android:orientation="horizontal" for those nested layouts.

Or you can use another content manager, like RelativeLayout. The advantage of this, is that you can avoid nesting, thus your layout will be easier to read/maintain/inflate. This is a brief example:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:orientation="vertical" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <TextView 
        android:id="@+id/text_view_boat1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="@string/boat_1"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"/> 
    <EditText 
        android:id="@+id/entry" 
        android:hint="@string/IRC" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"
        android:toRightOf="@+id/text_view_boat1"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"/> 
    <TextView 
        android:id="@+id/text_view_boat2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="@string/boat_2"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@id/text_view_boat1"/> 
    <EditText 
        android:id="@+id/entry2" 
        android:hint="@string/IRC" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"
        android:toRightOf="@+id/text_view_boat2"
        android:layout_below="@id/entry"/> 
</RelativeLayout>

Answer 2

Your LinearLayout has the attribute android:orientation="vertical" so of course everything is going to be displayed vertically within it.

Try wrapping a TextView and EditText with a LinearLayout that has android:orientation="horizontal"