Center text in List View - Android

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This may seem like a duplicate but I can't find an answer anywhere.

It seems everyone has "TextView" available to edit in their activity xml file, whereas I only have the following:

<ListView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/liv1"
    android:layout_below="@+id/lt1"
    android:layout_marginTop="29dp"
    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/lt1"
    android:layout_alignEnd="@+id/lt1"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/lt1"
    android:layout_alignStart="@+id/lt1"
    />

Using android:gravity = centerdoes nothing when I put it in between the "ListView" brackets.

So what is it I should do?

Text in list view cannot be centered through tags in ListView itself. If you are using a default adapter then you can't do that. You need to create a class which extends either BaseAdapter or arrayAdapter and provide XML for every Row. — Murtaza Khursheed Hussain, Jun 09 '15 at 13:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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You should create a custom ListView adapter that fits your needs, and also create an inflater's xml layout and align the text there whatever you want.

More info here:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Jun 09 '15 at 13:41

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score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 09 '15 at 13:41

You should set gravity in your item, that you using in your adapter. And there modify your textView like this way:

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"   <= set this
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/invalid"
android:gravity="center"   <=this your gravity
/>

Center text in List View - Android

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