How to center tooltip text in EditText in Android?

Question

I need to center the help text in EditText on Android. How to do it?

Answer 1

To center the hint text for working with EditText, you need to make sure that android: ellipsize = "start". I do not know why this makes it work, but it is.

Example extracted 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

Actually android:gravity="center_horizontal" acts "center". you can use

Android: Gravity = "Start"

to put the tooltip text at the beginning of the EditText view, etc.

Answer 3

Use this xml attribute:

Android: Gravity = "Center"

Answer 4

Use attribute

 android:gravity="center" 

Answer 5

I used this code under any circumstances, and it works fine without using android: ellipsize = "start" to make a hint in the center.

  <EditText android:id="@+id/player2Name" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:gravity="center_horizontal" android:hint="robi" android:inputType="text" /> 

Answer 6

Unfortunately, none of the answers helped me reconcile the hint written in LTR, while the layout orientation was RTL. I needed such a layout in the form of a translation application to make overlay icons not interfering with RTL text. But this trick didn’t work with tooltips, as long as there was no text (icons appeared above the tooltip), and I came to the following java solution to the layout problem:

 @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { . . . if (isRightToLeft()){ EditText guess = (EditText) rootView.findViewById(android.R.id.text1); CharSequence hint = "\u200F" + guess.getHint(); guess.setHint(hint); } . . . } 

The trick was a label from right to left to add a line from left to right. And it seems to work, but does anyone know a more elegant solution?

Answer 7

I think the answer should be:

 android:textAlignment="center" 

Answer 8

textAlignment worked for me.

 textAlignment="center" 

Answer 9

This worked for me:

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/nombreslayoutinput"> <EditText android:id="@+id/nombreslayout" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:hint="@string/nombres" android:layout_centerInParent="true" android:gravity="center|center_vertical" android:ellipsize="start" android:inputType="textCapWords|textPersonName" /> </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>