Positioning Views in Android
<p>I want to create a fill in the blank type of question. Where the user drags and drops the answer in the empty space.</p>

<p>My Name is <strong><em>_</em>__<em>_</em>_</strong>. Or &lt; Some long text > <strong><em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em></strong> &lt; Some other text >. </p>

<p>What I did :</p>

<p>I used Horizontal linear layout but the problem is some of the views disappear specially when the text is too long or they will not be positioned exactly after the text view. Any idea how i can concatenate those views . TextView + Empty Layout + TextView. excatly the way i showed above . </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Here is the Code .....</p>

<h3>Layout XML</h3>

<pre><code>android:id="@+id/LinearLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" &gt;

&lt;LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/thequestionLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" &gt;

    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/start_tv"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Some text" /&gt;

    &lt;LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/blank_space"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@drawable/shape" &gt;
    &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;

    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/end_tv"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="end text" /&gt;
&lt;/LinearLayout&gt;

&lt;!-- Here are the choices --&gt;

&lt;LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/theChoicesLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center" &gt;

    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/choice1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="TextView" /&gt;

    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/choice2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="TextView" /&gt;

    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/choice3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="TextView" /&gt;
&lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
</code></pre>

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