Android set the gravity for a TextView programmatically

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 that correctly, that would apply it to the tablerow? not the textview?

Please help, i'm lost.

Answer 1

Try this it 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);

Answer 2

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

You should search in the API before asking here... http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/android/widget/TextView.html

Also, are you talking about gravity or about layout_gravity? The latter won't work in a RelativeLayout.