Center message in android dialog box

Question

I want the message text within my dialog box to be center aligned.

Answer 1

Of course, you can always set the gravity of the original text view. This allows you to not have to worry about formatting and padding.

For example

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); builder.setTitle("Title"); builder.setMessage("Message"); builder.setPositiveButton("OK", null); AlertDialog dialog = builder.show();  // Must call show() prior to fetching text view TextView messageView = (TextView)dialog.findViewById(android.R.id.message); messageView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER); 

Answer 2

Create your own TextView object and then supply it to popup builder as View:

AlertDialog.Builder popupBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); TextView myMsg = new TextView(this); myMsg.setText("Central"); myMsg.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL); popupBuilder.setView(myMsg); 

You can control all other text parameters (style, color, size ...). To control margins you may programatically create LinearLayout, set LayoutParams, and then put TextView into it.