Left align text inside a button in Android

I want to align text of a button to the left, I don't know how to do this, please help me how to do this in the xml file. I didn´t find the properties for this.

Maybe this will help you:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
        android:text="Button" />

</LinearLayout>

You probably want both

    android:gravity="left|center_vertical"

and then a little bit of space

    android:paddingLeft="5dp"

to keep the text from running up against the left edge of the button.

(Adjust the amount of padding_left as appropriate for your button art.)

android:gravity="left"

Hope This will help

android:gravity="left|center_vertical"

It will work but now you may need to add some padding left according to your requirement.

        android:paddingLeft="10dp"

You probably need BOTH the android:gravity AND the android:layout_gravity to align text to "left".

This is combination from above that worked for me, icon on left and text left aligned with some padding

<Button
    android:id="@+id/butt_labs"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
	android:drawableLeft="@drawable/dt_labjob"
	android:paddingLeft="10dip"
	android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
    android:text="@string/l_labs" />

As everyone else has mentioned, "left|center_vertical" works, but I have found that if left or right is not explicitly stated, most properties default to left.

So putting the following should be enough to get your text left-justified and vertically centered:

android:gravity="center_vertical"

If you have to support many different languages it is better to use start or end to position text. That way for right to left (RTL) languages it will still work.

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
        android:text="Button" />

</LinearLayout>