Horizontally center align two textviews in a layout

Question

I need to horizontally align two textview in the center of the screen. Both textviews have different font size.

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Here is my code:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="top|center_horizontal"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/progressstatus"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:textSize="50sp"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/percent"
        android:textColor="#CCCCCC"
        android:textSize="20sp" />

</LinearLayout>

Right now my textviews are aligned left and both are showing same font size.

Ahmad Raza · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-29T10:56:45.490

Try It:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/progressstatus"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center_vertical|right"
        android:text="75"
        android:textColor="#FFFF00"
        android:textSize="50sp" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:text="%"
        android:textColor="#CCCCCC"
        android:textSize="20sp" />
</LinearLayout>

Explanation: I set the parent layout to wrap_content, means parent will wrapped its height according to child heights. There are 2 textviews in parent. One has bigger font size and other has smaller font size. Bigger font size view would definitely has more height then smaller one. So, i set the bigger height to wrap_content. Now, the smaller view's height is match_parent, means smaller one would expand itself to max height of parent that would be equal to the height of bigger font's view.. So, both would be center_aligned.

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Its vertically centred. I need horizontally centred. Vertically it will be top aligned. — Faheem, May 29 '14 at 10:54
@Ahmed: Everything is fine except my "%" sign i.e. second text view is still centred vertically. How will I make it superscript like in the picture I attached? — Faheem, May 29 '14 at 11:13
@Faheem: try to understand the code. remove android:gravity="center_vertical" from percentage textview. It will work for you :) — Ahmad Raza, May 29 '14 at 11:15
This was Exactly it. And No faizal, layout_weight is necessary. — Ruan, Mar 02 '17 at 14:32

Qadir Hussain · Answer 2 · 2014-05-29T10:58:57.853

<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:background="#31BBF9" >

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="top|center_horizontal"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/progressstatus"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:text="75"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:textSize="50sp" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="%"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:textSize="20sp" />

</LinearLayout>

Output

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change testview's (%) android:gravity="center_vertical" to your choice

My Second text View (%) is not being shown. Do I have to use weights also? Note that I have some other layouts as well in my xml. — Faheem, May 29 '14 at 10:57

Farouk Touzi · Answer 3 · 2014-05-29T10:31:26.650

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Try this please

<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:orientation="horizontal" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/progressstatus"
    android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
    android:textSize="50sp"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

<TextView
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:text="@string/percent"
    android:textColor="#CCCCCC"
    android:textSize="20sp" />

</LinearLayout>

edited May 29 '14 at 10:31

answered May 29 '14 at 10:24

Farouk Touzi

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you are giving android:layout_height="match_parent" ..i think it is wrong. – Zar E Ahmer May 29 '14 at 10:31
you should test it before comment ;) – Farouk Touzi May 29 '14 at 10:31
ok sure :) You made a LinearLayout horizontal, inside of it you made 2 textViews that fills the space they needed. But the problem you had is the text inside the TextViews are positioned on the top left of it. By adding a gravity center_vertical in Textview, you force the text inside to be centered. The match_parent, is set to put layout of textView to fit height of its parent. Hope this helps you – Farouk Touzi May 29 '14 at 10:35
and why are you using android:gravity="center_vertical" in both text view and also in parent – Zar E Ahmer May 29 '14 at 10:41
The one on TextViews is needed, but in the parent i can say it's useless – Farouk Touzi May 29 '14 at 10:42

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 29 '14 at 10:28

Try this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
     <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="top|center_horizontal"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/progressstatus"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:textSize="50sp"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/percent"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:textSize="20sp" />

    </LinearLayout>

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 29 '14 at 10:32

You could use Relative layout to accomplish the above. Please check the below code

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

 <LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/progressstatus"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="75"
        android:textSize="20sp" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/percent"
        android:textSize="20sp" />
  </LinearLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 29 '14 at 10:33

Use this code in xml file

  <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/white_color" >

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_centerInParent="true"
            android:orientation="horizontal" >

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/progressstatus"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
                android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
                android:textSize="50sp" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/percent"
                android:textColor="#CCCCCC"
                android:textSize="20sp" />
        </LinearLayout>
    </RelativeLayout>

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered May 29 '14 at 10:33

check out with this

  <LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">                 

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding="20dp" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/progressstatus"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:textSize="50sp"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/percent"
            android:textColor="#CCCCCC"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:textSize="20sp" />

    </LinearLayout>

 </LinearLayout>

score 0 · Answer 8 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

you can do it using one textview

            <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:background="@android:color/black"
                tools:context="com.example.demo.MainActivity$PlaceholderFragment" >

                <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:id="@+id/tv"
                    android:text="75%"
                    android:textSize="20sp"
                    android:gravity="top"
                    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"/>
              </RelativeLayout>


        TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv);
                Spannable span = new SpannableString(textView.getText());
                span = new SpannableString(textView.getText());
                span.setSpan(new CustomCharacterSpan(), 2, 3,
                        SpannableString.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);//u can use ur own ratio using another constructor
                textView.setText(span, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
                span.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(3f), 0, 2, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                textView.setText(span);



    package com.example.demo;

    import android.text.TextPaint;
    import android.text.style.MetricAffectingSpan;

    public class CustomCharacterSpan extends MetricAffectingSpan {
    double ratio = 1.5;

    public CustomCharacterSpan() {
    }

    public CustomCharacterSpan(double ratio) {
        this.ratio = ratio;
    }

    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint paint) {
        paint.baselineShift += (int) (paint.ascent() * ratio);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateMeasureState(TextPaint paint) {
        paint.baselineShift += (int) (paint.ascent() * ratio);
    }}

for further reference you can check this link Two different styles in a single textview with different gravity and hieght

Horizontally center align two textviews in a layout

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