How set the android gravity to TextView from Java side in Android

Question

I can use android gravity  bottom center horizontal  in xml on a textview to get my desired results  but I need to do this programmatically  My textview is inside a tablerow if that matters in a relativelayout   I have tried   LayoutParams layoutParams   new TableRow LayoutParams LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT  LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT  Gravity BOTTOM   Gravity CENTER HORIZONTAL   labelTV setLayoutParams layoutParams     But if I understand correctly  that would apply it to the tablerow  not the textview

User · Answer

We can set layout gravity on any view like below way-

myView = findViewById(R.id.myView);
myView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL|Gravity.RIGHT);
 or
myView.setGravity(Gravity.BOTTOM);

This is equilent to below xml code

<...
 android:gravity="center_vertical|right"
 ...
 .../>

User · Answer

This will center the text in a text view   TextView ta    TextView  findViewById R layout text view   LayoutParams lp   new LayoutParams    lp gravity   Gravity CENTER HORIZONTAL  ta setLayoutParams lp

User · Answer

You should use textView setGravity Gravity CENTER HORIZONTAL     Remember that using   LinearLayout LayoutParams layoutParams  new LinearLayout LayoutParams LayoutParams MATCH PARENT  LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT   layoutParams2 gravity   Gravity BOTTOM   Gravity CENTER HORIZONTAL    won t work  This will set the gravity for the widget and not for it s text

User · Answer

Use this code          TextView textView   new TextView YourActivity this           textView setGravity Gravity CENTER   Gravity TOP           textView setText  some text

User · Answer

labelTV setGravity Gravity CENTER   Gravity BOTTOM     Kotlin version  thanks to Thommy   labelTV gravity   Gravity CENTER HORIZONTAL or Gravity BOTTOM   Also  are you talking about gravity or about layout gravity  The latter won t work in a RelativeLayout

User · Answer

textView setGravity Gravity CENTER   Gravity BOTTOM     This will set gravity of your textview

User · Answer

Solved this by doing a few things  first getting the height of my TextView and diving it by the text size to get the total amount of lines possible with the TextView   int maxLines    int  TextView getHeight      int  TextView getTextSize        After you get this value you need to set your TextView maxLines to this new value     TextView setMaxLines maxLines       Set the Gravity to Bottom once the maximum amount of lines has been exceeded and it will scroll down automatically   if  TextView getLineCount    gt   maxLines        TextView setGravity Gravity BOTTOM         In order for this to work correctly  you must use append   to the TextView  If you setText   this will not work   TextView append  Your Text        The benefit of this method is that this can be used dynamically regardless of the height of your TextView and the text size  If you decide to make modifications to your layout this code would still work

[android] How set the android:gravity to TextView from Java side in Android

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