How to center text horizontally and vertically in a TextView?

Apply gravity:

TextView txtView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtView);
txtView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);

For vertical:

txtView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);

In XML:

<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="@string/Hello_World"
/>

4 years ago

The following code can be implemented to center text horizontally and vertically in a TextView:

<TextView  

    android:id="@+id/textView"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 

    android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"

    android:text="@strings/text"

/>

4 years ago