How do I center the hint text within an EditText in Android?

I need to center the Hint text within an EditText in Android. How do I do this?

In order for centering of hint text to work with EditText you have to make sure android:ellipsize="start" is defined. I don't know why this makes it work, but it does.

Example pulled from personal code:

<EditText
	android:id="@+id/player2Name"
	android:layout_width="wrap_content"
	android:layout_height="wrap_content"
	android:layout_centerInParent="true"
	android:ellipsize="start"
	android:gravity="center_horizontal"
	android:hint="@string/player2_name"
	android:inputType="textCapWords|textPersonName"
	android:singleLine="true" />

Actually, android:gravity="center_horizontal" creates the centering effect you're looking for. Similarly, you can use android:gravity="start" to put hint text at the beginning of the EditText view, and so on.

Use this xml attribute:

>android:gravity="center"

use attribute

android:gravity="center"

I used this code in every circumstances, and it works perfectly without using android:ellipsize="start" to make a hint in center.

  <EditText
    android:id="@+id/player2Name"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:hint="robi"
    android:inputType="text" />

I think the answer should be :

android:textAlignment="center"

textAlignment worked for me.

textAlignment="center"

Unfortunately, neither answer helped me aligning hint, written in LTR language, while the layout orientation was RTL. I needed such layout in a kind of translation application to make overlay icons not interfere with RTL text. But this trick didn't work with hints while there was no any text yet (icons appeared above the hint) and I came to the following java solution to layout problem:

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
. . .
        if (isRightToLeft()){
            EditText guess = (EditText) rootView.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
            CharSequence hint = "\u200F" + guess.getHint();
            guess.setHint(hint);
        }
. . .
}

The trick was in right-to-left mark to prepend a left-to-right string. And it seems to work, but does anyone know a more elegant solution?

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp">

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:hint="ENTER PIN"
            android:inputType="numberPassword" />
    </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Note: in the tag TextInputEditText,the property

> android:gravity="center"

is what makes the deal of aligning the text in the center including the hint text

use this: android:gravity="center"

I use this and worked for me

android:gravity="Left|center_vertical"

use android:textAlignment="center" in EditText , it work for me

This worked for me:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/nombreslayoutinput">
    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/nombreslayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/nombres"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        android:gravity="center|center_vertical"
        android:ellipsize="start"
        android:inputType="textCapWords|textPersonName"

        />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

The correct answer is

android:gravity="center_horizontal

> hint gravity

android:textAlignment="center"

> text gravity

android:gravity="left"

My problem was that the EditText wasn't big enought to fit exactly inside its parent (FrameLayout in my case), so using just android:gravity="center" (center_vertical, horizontal, start, or whatever) would just fit it inside the EditText, and not in its parent, so I had to center the EditText inside its parent using:

android:layout_gravity="center"

pd: I used android:background="@android:color/transparent" to hide the ugly underline in the EditText hint