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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Building the Weather UI Centering a TextView

Posted by Ashish Mittal
Ashish Mittal
2,302 Points

add the attribute so that textview is at centre

pls help

activity_movie.xml 
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:background="@android:color/white" >

  <TextView
    android:id="@+id/movieTitle"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="32sp"
    android:text="hello"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            />

</RelativeLayout>

1 Answer

Kristian Terziev
Kristian Terziev
28,449 Points
Kristian Terziev
Kristian Terziev
28,449 Points

You need to center it horizontally not vertically. Therefore add this line of code instead of the one you wrote:

android:layout_centerHorizontal = "true"