<item name="android:height">,Changing android:layout_height and android:gravity in styles.xml

I'm new to android development and I've stumbled upon a problem I couldn't solve with the help of existing StackOverflow questions.

In the list of custom items I'm loading a TextView object which can use 2 different styles (both defined in styles.xml) - if there's a secondary TextView object, the style applied is itemHeadingText_Medium, and if not it's itemHeadingText_Large. I'm changing the style programmaticaly in the ListItemAdapter class.

bold

@android:color/black

100dp

center_vertical

bold

@android:color/black

Sadly, the android:layout_height and android:gravity aren't applied to the view, and whole app looks like that. Here's how both TextViews are defined:

android:id="@+id/heading"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:background="@android:color/darker_gray"/>

android:id="@+id/secondary"

style="@style/itemSecondaryText"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:background="@android:color/holo_red_light"/>

I would like to center vertically the Lorem Ipsum heading of the second item provided in the screenshot.

EDIT: 25 June 2017

I managed to achieve what I wanted by changing the height programmatically using the getLayoutParams().height and adding the android:gravity attribute to the TextView xml definition - after all in both styles text can be centered vertically within its TextView.

Nevertheless, my question on how to do that in styles.xml is still open!