TextView align center - Android

Question

I have a text view like this,

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:text="Large Text"
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"/>

It is aligned in the center horizontally, but now I want to move it 20p to the left from the center. So I tried android:layout_marginStart="30dp" android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"

But it stayed in the middle how can I move it to the left, but have the reference to center?

Here is full xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context="com.spencer.one.SplashScreenActivity">

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:text="Large Text"
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_marginStart="30dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Thanks

Answer 1

<TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
        android:gravity="center"/>

The content is center inside the textView and is 30dp marginLeft

Answer 2

You can try android:paddingRight="30dp" , something like this.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginRight="30dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

</RelativeLayout>

Answer 3

you can try with this code

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:text="Large Text"
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:gravity="left"
    />

Answer 4

Try this:

<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="Large Text"
android:id="@+id/textView"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginRight="20dp"/>

You're trying to move it to the left so making a margin of 20dp in the right would push it 20dp to the left and still maintain center as reference.

Answer 5

little tricky but works.

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    >
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="whatever"
        />
    <View
        android:layout_width="20dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        />
</LinearLayout>

First create linearlayout and put textview inside. And add empty view to give padding.

that's all.

Answer 6

you should use padding instead of margin for ...

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:text="Large Text"
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:paddingRight="30dp"
/>