Center text android button

Question

My question is very simple. How do I center the text on a button in android? I tried to set padding to 0, gravity to center but the result when i run it still that the text is horizontal centred but not vertical. The text is a bit shifted to the bottom.

<Button
    android:id="@+id/btnSame"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dip"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dip"
    android:background="@drawable/layout_button_different"
    android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
    android:height="30dp"
    android:padding="0dip"
    android:text="@string/equals"
    android:textColor="@drawable/layout_button_different"
    android:textSize="50dp"
    android:width="70dp" />

My be also relevant: In activity I do this:

btnEquals.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(null,getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.up2), null, null);
btnEquals.setPadding(0, 5, 0, 0);
btnEquals.setTextSize(15);

This works but after this I set this:

btnEquals.setCompoundDrawables(null, null, null, null);
btnEquals.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);

Result is a bad vertical alignment.

Answer 1

It's easy peasy, you can put this:

android:textAlignment="center"