Android: align text to the left and center text in parent view

Question

Hello, I ran into a little problem.

I use GRAVITY LEFT to make text for the left side of the view, but I want to focus inside the text box, but also align to the left

Here is what I have now:

___________________________________ _ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaaaaaaa |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaa |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaaaaaaaa |_ _ _ _ _ _ ----------------------------------- 

I want:

  ___________________________________ _ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaaaaa |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaa |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| aaaaaaaaaaaaaa |_ _ _ _ _ _ ----------------------------------- 

Where:

_ _ _ _ = outside textview

| = edge of TextView

I tried android: gravity = "left | center", but this does not work, any idea?

thanks

 <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:id="@+id/image_button_wrapper" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:gravity="center" android:layout_centerVertical="true"> <ImageView android:id="@+id/left_button_image" android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/spacing_normal"/> <Textview android:id="@+id/textview" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_toRightOf="@id/left_button_image" android:gravity = "center|left|left" android:clickable="false" android:focusable="false" app:font_name="Roboto-Light.ttf"/> 

What am I (text aligned left but not centered)

What I want (the text is aligned left and center) (I add the addition manually to get the render, but it is dirty and will not adapt to the whole text):

Answer 1

Just specify the Textview parent as:

 android:gravity = "center" 

Just give Textview like:

 android:gravity = "center_vertical|left|start" android:layout_margin="20dp" 

Answer 2

You will get what you want if you change the width of the text field to match_parent or set a fixed width:

 <TextView android:layout_width="100dp" //android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Hi! This is amazing!!" android:gravity="center_horizontal"/> 

Answer 3

In text mode, change this:

  android:gravity = "center|left|left" 

to

  android:gravity = "center" 

Answer 4

The problem is your text width, which simply wraps itself around the text and sets its gravity to center it only in the wrap area.

Change the width to fit - parent and gravity - to the center. It can help you.

 android:layout_width="match_parent" android:gravity = "center" 

Alternative method: because the boundary lines are centered, which are separated from the text view. You simply add the following line to the text view.

  android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" 

Answer 5

change RelativeLayout to LinearLayout, create a center of gravity and layout_gravity.