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Where is Text alignment option for text view in the latest version of Android Studio?

I'm a newbie here and trying to dive in into android development with android studio.

I was watching a video on udemy on their intro to android development tutorial and I noticed that the android studio (version 3.1.3 running on mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6) does not have any textAlignment option for textView.

Below are some screenshots to show you exactly what I mean:

So yeah, I'm really confused about this and I've been trying to google any answer for this to no avail. Isn't the option supposed to be there? Forgive me if it turns out that I made a stupid mistake or something, I'm a total beginner when it comes to this, just trying to learn.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,

2 Answers
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textAlignment was introduced in api level 17, so you can not see it there, if your minSdkVersion is greater than 17.

textAlignment

minSdkVersion

You can specify gravity in TextView. If you use textAlignment = "textEnd" then you have to specify gravity also.

gravity

TextView

textAlignment = "textEnd"

gravity

So i suggest you use just gravity for same purpose. If you still want enter textAlignment then you can type in text editor of xml. There you will see suggestion of textAlignment.

gravity

textAlignment

textAlignment

I am using android 3.1.3 on macOS Sierra 10.12.6
I don't know about UI options. But, you definitely can add it in the XML like,

<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="55dp"
android:textAlignment="center" />


You are editing it in the design view right now. Switch it to the text part of activity_main.xml.
Hope this works for you.

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