Align Center Menu Item text in android

Question

Using following code

Answer 1

Another way to achieve this is via setting theme

 <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeToolbar.NavigationViewPadding"
    app:itemTextColor="@color/inverse_color"
    app:itemIconTint="@color/inverse_color"
    app:itemBackground="@drawable/selector_navigation"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/activity_home_nav_header"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_home_drawer" />

In your styles

    <style name="ThemeToolbar.NavigationViewPadding">
    <item name="listPreferredItemPaddingLeft">50dp</item>
    </style>

Answer 2

I used @Mahm00d's way, that worked perfectly, but I found another way to solve the problem. It is to add \t before the String. If the space isn't enough, I can add more.

Because Chinese words are one by one, the length of the item is same.

Answer 3

You can center-align the menu items dynamically using SpannableString in your activity:

int positionOfMenuItem = 0; //or any other postion
MenuItem item = menu.getItem(positionOfMenuItem);
SpannableString s = new SpannableString(settingsItemTitle);

s.setSpan(new AlignmentSpan.Standard(Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER), 0, s.length(), 0);

item.setTitle(s);