Center text in a Toast

Question

I was wondering if there was a way to display all text in a Toast to be centered. For instance, I have a Toast that has 2 lines of text in it. For purely aesthetic reasons, I would like the text to center-aligned instead of left-aligned. I've looked through the documentation and can't find anything about it. Is there a simple way to do this that I have missed?

score 112 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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Adapted from another answer:

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, "Centered\nmessage", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
TextView v = (TextView) toast.getView().findViewById(android.R.id.message);
if( v != null) v.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
toast.show();

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Nov 21 '12 at 12:01

Marc

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Why the default gravity is not Gravity.CENTER? Silly android! – DàChún Apr 08 '16 at 07:51
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I don't know why but I have failed this method on Android 11 (API-30). – hata Oct 31 '21 at 09:03
I haven't worked with Android for years, it's possible that Google disabled this possibility? – Marc Nov 01 '21 at 10:12

score 28 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 19 '10 at 13:28

Toast is built on a TextView and the default gravity of it is left aligned. So, you need to create your own TextView like this for instance :

<TextView  
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
    android:text="all the text you want"
/>

And you assign the TextView to the Toast like this :

Toast t = new Toast(yourContext);
t.setView(yourNewTextView);

score 27 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 31 '21 at 09:13

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Without the hacks:

String text = "Some text";
Spannable centeredText = new SpannableString(text);
centeredText.setSpan(
    new AlignmentSpan.Standard(Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER),
    0, text.length() - 1,
    Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE
);

Toast.makeText(getActivity(), centeredText, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

There are also another alignments besides center.

cf. Multiple alignment in TextView?

edited Oct 31 '21 at 09:13

hata

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answered Jan 15 '15 at 21:16

YetAnotherUser

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It still works on Android 11 (API-30). – hata Oct 31 '21 at 09:09

score 19 · Answer 4 · answered May 01 '11 at 08:35

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It is dirty hack, but

((TextView)((LinearLayout)toast.getView()).getChildAt(0))
    .setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);

answered May 01 '11 at 08:35

Mikhail

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Great! Make sure you surround with a `ClassCastException` catch to be safe in case the view hierarchy of Toasts changes in the future. – mxcl Feb 27 '12 at 19:20
This works on my Nexus 4. I suggest doing this, wrapping it with a ClassCastException as Max Howell said above and then live with it when it throws an actual exception. – Johan S Mar 23 '13 at 09:17
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use findViewById(android.R.id.message) on the view returned by toast.getView() to ensure working code on all versions – erlando Oct 21 '13 at 12:02

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 03 '16 at 21:03

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Use the Toast's setView(view) function to supply a View with Gravity.CENTER.

edited Feb 03 '16 at 21:03

Richard Erickson

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answered Aug 19 '10 at 13:20

Sameer Segal

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What about APIs < 23? Does it matter? – quant Nov 03 '18 at 16:15

score 13 · Answer 6 · answered May 07 '11 at 15:10

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Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, "Message", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
toast.show();

answered May 07 '11 at 15:10

serj

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This does not center the text, but the toast's itself. – Emre Yazici Jan 27 '12 at 18:45

score 5 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 24 '14 at 10:18

Not saing that findViewById(android.R.id.message) is wrong, but just in case there are (future?) implementation differences I myself used a bit differen approach:

void centerText(View view) {
    if( view instanceof TextView){
        ((TextView) view).setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
    }else if( view instanceof ViewGroup){
        ViewGroup group = (ViewGroup) view;
        int n = group.getChildCount();
        for( int i = 0; i<n; i++ ){
            centerText(group.getChildAt(i));
        }
    }
}

and then:

Toast t = Toast.makeText(context, msg,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
centerText(t.getView());
t.show();

score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 06 '18 at 06:20

In kotlin:

fun makeToast(context: Context, resId: Int) {
    val toast = Toast.makeText(context, resId, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
    val view = toast.view.findViewById<TextView>(android.R.id.message)
    view?.let {
        view.gravity = Gravity.CENTER
    }
    toast.show()
}

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 13 '18 at 06:53

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It is work for me:

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER| Gravity.BOTTOM, 0, 20);
toast.show();

answered Mar 13 '18 at 06:53

Kumar VL

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This does not work for me. The text is still aligned to the left. – Julius Aug 09 '18 at 17:48

score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Oct 16 '21 at 05:55

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This variation is with using LinearLayout in your layout xml :)

Toast SampleToast = Toast.makeText(this, "This is the example of centered text.\nIt is multiline text.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
LinearLayout OurLayout = (LinearLayout) SampleToast.getView();
    
if (OurLayout.getChildCount() > 0) {
   TextView SampleView = (TextView) OurLayout.getChildAt(0);
   SampleView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL | Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);
}

SampleToast.show();

edited Oct 16 '21 at 05:55

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answered Feb 02 '15 at 10:41

Muhamed Huseinbašić

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This is a hacky solution that might not work in future versions of android, for example if the first child is not a TextView. Does not follow Java coding standards. – Leandro Glossman Nov 16 '15 at 19:30

score -3 · Answer 11 · edited Feb 03 '16 at 23:00

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Toast t=Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Text",Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
t.setText("Password Does't match...");
t.setGravity(0, 0, 0);
t.show();

simple code for toast most be center

edited Feb 03 '16 at 23:00

Raiv

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answered Feb 03 '16 at 19:37

Pintu Nandesariya

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Welcome to SO. Please look through the [help page on answering questions.](http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer). As written, your code is poorly formatted and does not contain an explanation. – Richard Erickson Feb 03 '16 at 20:01
Sorry, but your code set gravity center to the toast (it appear in center screen), not to the text – Leonardo Sapuy Apr 20 '16 at 17:11

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