androidgravity

Android align text top center

I'm sorry if this is a duplicate but i couldn't find anything that was quite what I'm looking for. Basically, i want to align the text in the text View to be in the top center. And I would like to do this in XML if possible. So i want to combine

android:gravity="center"

and

android:gravity="top"

so that it aligns it with both. I have already tried to put both attributes in the text View element but it just gives an error.

Solution

  • First, you cannot duplicate the attribute, though you can combine values.

    android:gravity="g1|g2"

    However, center implies both vertical and horizontal centering so top|center wouldn't be correct. You should use

    android:gravity="top|center_horizontal"