Difference between android:layout_gravity and android:gravity

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I'm some what new to android and I'm really confused very much about the difference between parameters android:layout_gravity and android:gravity. So can someone please help me on using these. Thank you!

possible duplictae http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482742/android-gravity-and-layout-gravity?rq=1 — kalyan pvs, Nov 19 '13 at 04:49

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '13 at 04:49

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android:layout_gravity is the gravity related to your whole Layout like LinearLayout,Relative layout and android:gravity is the gravity related to your particular view like Button,EditText..etc Hope this helps

answered Nov 19 '13 at 04:49

Siddharth_Vyas

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 19 '13 at 04:58

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android:gravity sets the gravity of the content of the View its used on.

android:layout_gravity sets the gravity of the View or Layout in its parent.

go through this example

answered Nov 19 '13 at 04:58

Avinash

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 19 '13 at 10:13

android:gravity applies graivity to the content of the view, while android:layout_gravity applies gravity to the view itself inside its parent.

For a button,layout_gravity will apply gravity to whole button whereas android:gravity will apply to its content that is text on Button etc.

Difference between android:layout_gravity and android:gravity

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