How to align the text inside the TextView in Android?

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Android Problem Overview

I have a multiline TextView in Android. It is a child of a LinearLayout. It is already centered horizontally and I also want to have the text inside it centered.

Here's what I have now:

_ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  
_ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaa  
_ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

What I want is:

_ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  
_ _ _ _ _ _|       aaaaaaaa  
_ _ _ _ _ _|     aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Where:

_ _ _ _ = the space on the side of the TextView

| = the TextView edge

Android Solutions

Solution 1 - Android

Did you try the gravity attribute on the TextView ?

  android:gravity="center"

And make sure to use android:gravity and not android:layout_gravity.

Solution 2 - Android

android:gravity="center_horizontal" should do the trick.

More information could be found here or here.

Solution 3 - Android

Yes, use android:gravity attribute to change the position of data inside views.

Solution 4 - Android

The gravity attribute is the update to Alignment. Gravity is available in the attributes inspector as well as being able to do;

android:gravity="center"

Solution 5 - Android

If you just want to align your text in textView then textAlignment is better option then gravity.

Add android:textAlignment="center" for Center

Add android:textAlignment="textStart" for Left

Add android:textAlignment="textEnd" for Right

Solution 6 - Android

Make the text (which you want to set into TextView) in strings.xml as following :

<string name="content">
<center>Your text goes here.</center>
</string>

and in TextView add following attribute:

<TextView
...
android:text="@string/content"/>

It will center the text into TextView horizontally.

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