android:gravity fails on API 18+
android, gravity, java, layout
Solution
This appears to be a known issue in API 18+:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=59368 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=59700
The problem seems to occur when a TextView is part of a scrollable container (e.g. ListView), making the view ignore the vertical gravity for some reason (some sources suggest this has to do with the TextView being the child of a RelativeLayout, though it's been my experience that this can happen even when no such layout is involved).
A possible workaround (albeit not a particularly elegant one), would be to wrap the TextView in a LinearLayout. You can then use "layout_gravity" on the TextView to center it inside the LinearLayout, instead of relying on "gravity" (just make sure to wrap_content so the text itself is properly centered).
E.g., in your example:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/seekbar"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignTop="@+id/seekbar"
android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/seekbar"
android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/margin_tiny_double" >
<com.package.custom.CustomTextFont
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:gravity="left"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/margin_tiny"
android:text="@string/text1"
android:textColor="@color/black"
android:textSize="@dimen/size_text_normal" />
</LinearLayout>
This method does have the disadvantage of adding an otherwise-unnecessary level to your view hierarchy, but it currently seems to be the only way around this (other than reverting to an earlier API level).
Also see similar question at: Android sdk 18 TextView gravity doesn't work vertically
Problem
I have some TextViews on my app, I don't know why but the `android:gravity` attribute is not centering the text content where it should be on devices running the API 18+ (4.3+). There is the code I use on my custom `TextView`, this is a child of RelativeLayout: ``` <com.package.custom.CustomTextFont android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/seekbar" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_alignTop="@+id/seekbar" android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/margin_tiny_double" android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/seekbar" android:gravity="center_vertical|left" android:paddingRight="@dimen/margin_tiny" android:text="@string/text1" android:textColor="@color/black" android:textSize="@dimen/size_text_normal" /> ``` This code should take the edges of this `TextView` and align it to the top and bottom and put it to the Left of the `SeekBar`, this is working, but the `TextView` gets big, so with `android:gravity` I center the text to the center and left from it self. It works, but I don't know why, the text is not centered at center|left on devices running android 4.3 and 4.4. This issue can be reproduced on real devices and as well on the layout preview (Graphic layout) of Eclipse. There is any changes made on API 18+ or on `android:gravity` that I'm missing? PS: I'm targetting the API 19 on the project and on AndroidManifest.xml PS2: My TextView is custom just to set an external font.tff This is how it looks like on API 17- This is how it looks like on API 18+ Thanks in advance! = UPTADATE = On my Manifest, I changed the `android:targetSdkVersion` to 17 instead of 19 and the problem disappeared, but this is a "trick", not a solution, what can I do since it could be an issue from the API ? And yes, I have the latest version of the API 18 and 19 (today, 01/30/2014).