Question

I want to center a text inside a TextView relative to the parent layout and not relative to the textview.

Example in this code in want to center text list_title relative to my screen width:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
        android:layout_weight="75"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/list_title" />
    <Button
        android:layout_weight="15"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:minWidth="90px"
        android:text="@string/filter"
        android:visibility="gone"
        android:id="@+id/button_filter" />
</LinearLayout>

Have you a solution?

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Hum, it’s not a very good solution, but if you know your title lenght, you can add

android:paddingLeft="160dip"

to your textview.

Replace 160dip by 160 – lenght of your title / 2, it will be almost centered on all screens…

Edit: or if you want an other solution, you have to use relative layout.