How do I center the hint text within an EditText in Android?

Question

I need to center the Hint text within an EditText in Android. How do I do this?

Answer 1

In order for centering of hint text to work with EditText you have to make sure android:ellipsize="start" is defined. I don't know why this makes it work, but it does.

Example pulled from personal code:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/player2Name"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
    android:ellipsize="start"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:hint="@string/player2_name"
    android:inputType="textCapWords|textPersonName"
    android:singleLine="true" />

Answer 2

use android:textAlignment="center" in EditText , it work for me

Answer 3

My problem was that the EditText wasn't big enought to fit exactly inside its parent (FrameLayout in my case), so using just android:gravity="center" (center_vertical, horizontal, start, or whatever) would just fit it inside the EditText, and not in its parent, so I had to center the EditText inside its parent using:

android:layout_gravity="center"

pd: I used android:background="@android:color/transparent" to hide the ugly underline in the EditText hint

Answer 4

I think the answer should be :

android:textAlignment="center"

Answer 5

use this: android:gravity="center"

Answer 6

I use this and worked for me

android:gravity="Left|center_vertical"