Change textview background color width

Question

I have a problem that I explain better with this images:

Now I have this:

But I want this:

I want to have the background color of my textview stretch on all the width of the screen, but I don't know how to do it. Can someone help me?

Thanks! :)

Answer 1

Use match_parent as the width :

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center"/>