Programmatically set text alignment in a TextView

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In my app, I have a button that creates a TextView with a certain message. How can I set the text alignment of the text to the right of the TextView? I see the attribute in XML, but I don't know how to do it in java.

Possible duplicate of [Right align text in android TextView](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8969122/right-align-text-in-android-textview) — Jean-Baptiste Yunès, Mar 04 '18 at 11:53
Possible duplicate of [Android TextView text alignment](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20217834/android-textview-text-alignment) — Bö macht Blau, Mar 04 '18 at 12:03

Joshua · Answer 1 · 2018-03-04T13:04:59.550

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Try using

textView.setGravity(Gravity.RIGHT)

edited Mar 04 '18 at 13:04

answered Mar 04 '18 at 11:54

Joshua

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '18 at 11:55

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You can set textview's gravity using

textLabel.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER | Gravity.BOTTOM);

answered Mar 04 '18 at 11:55

fi - Anand Dubey

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 14 '20 at 09:32

In Kotlin you can use something like the below,

 val textView = TextView(context)
 textView.apply {
     layoutParams = TableRow.LayoutParams(TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                                    TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
     textAlignment = View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_VIEW_START
 }

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 17 '22 at 12:54

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Here is what worked for me (in kotlin):

textView.textAlignment = View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_CENTER

answered Feb 17 '22 at 12:54

M_droid

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 26 '21 at 19:30

1.) Make sure the width is not set to wrap_content

2.) If the text view is inside another container, set gravity to the container. Remember that gravity is to align text and stuff like that while layout_gravity is used to align views within a parent.

3.) TextAlign aligns text at the beginning, end, left, or right of the container. Gravity is a bit more flexible with Center_Vertical, Center_Horizontal, or Center.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 03 '23 at 07:53

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textView.setTextAlignment(View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_CENTER);

answered Mar 03 '23 at 07:53

tsiftis

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Programmatically set text alignment in a TextView

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