gravity start left 区别

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原文如下：
#AndroidDev   #Protip  — use gravities of START and END instead of LEFT and RIGHT for better RTL support. Although the constants are only defined in API 14 [0], they are backward compatible because (1) they're inlined at compile time and (2) they're functionally equivalent to LEFT and RIGHT on earlier devices because of their least-significant bytes:


START = 0x00800003
LEFT = 0x00000003
END = 0x00800005
RIGHT = 0x00000005


Edit: You can see the difference between START and LEFT with <TextView layout_width=match_parent, gravity=start, text=[hebrew characters here]> … the text layout will see your Hebrew characters and align text to the right boundary of the TextView instead of the left because of gravity=start. And note, the default horizontal gravity of TextView is start, not left.


So, left is always left and right is always right, but start and end can be either left or right, depending on the locale.


个人总结：

left是绝对的左边，start会根据不同的国家习惯改变。

比如在从右向左顺序阅读的国家，start代表的就是在右边