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How do I center text in a text box in android Studio?

android:gravity="center_horizontal" for align text Center horizontally. android:gravity="center_vertical" for align text Center vertically. android:gravity="center" for align text Center both vertically and horizontally.

How do I align text to the center?

Select the text that you want to center. in the Page Setup group, and then click the Layout tab. In the Vertical alignment box, click Center. In the Apply to box, click Selected text, and then click OK.

How do you left align text on android?

To left align the text in this Textview through layout file, set the android:textAlignment attribute for the TextView to “viewStart”, as shown in the following activity_main. xml layout file.


Set also android:gravity parameter in TextView to center.

For testing the effects of different layout parameters I recommend to use different background color for every element, so you can see how your layout changes with parameters like gravity, layout_gravity or others.


use this way

txt.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);

use this way in xml

   <TextView
        android:id="@+id/myText"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Time is precious, so love now."
        android:gravity="center"
        android:textSize="30dp"
        android:textColor="#fff"
        />

You can use the following:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/showdescriptioncontenttitle"
    android:paddingTop="10dp"
    android:paddingBottom="10dp">

 <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="Your text"
        android:typeface="serif" />
</LinearLayout>

The layout needs to be relative for the "center" property to be used.


Adding android:gravity="center" in your TextView will do the trick (be the parent layout is Relative/Linear)!

Also, you should avoid using dp for font size. Use sp instead.


Just add these 2 lines;

android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:textAlignment="center"

add layout_gravity and gravity with center value on TextView

<TextView
    android:text="welcome text"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:gravity="center"
    />