Centering of large font text in TextView

Question

I have an issue, which seems quite trivial, but I have not been able to solve it this far.

I have a full screen landscape activity in which I have a single LinearLayout containing two TextViews which occupy half of the screen each. One of the TextViews shall have a centered character, regardless of font size.

The problem is that when I increase font size of this character it does not center, but instead has its center below the center line of the screen.

Here is the activity with 200sp size character on a 800*480 screen, looks ok - character is centered:

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/px_seven/char_200_sp.jpg

Here is the activity with 300sp size character, now the character has moved down:

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/px_seven/char_300_sp.jpg

This is the layout (I change from the default font size 250sp in the code):

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

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tv1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:background="#000000" /> 

<TextView
  android:id="@+id/tv2"
  android:lines="1"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:layout_weight="1"
  android:layout_gravity="center"
  android:gravity="center"
  android:background="#000000"
  android:text="N"
  android:textSize="250sp" /> 

</LinearLayout>

Does anybody see what the problem is?

Thanks, Fredric

Answer 1

Try adding this attribute to your text view android:includeFontPadding="false"