diff --git a/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.xml b/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.xml
index a94207cab..36c996636 100644
--- a/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.xml
+++ b/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,16 @@
     </Page.actionBar>
     <ScrollView>
       <StackLayout padding="20">
-        <Label text="maxLines 2" fontWeight="bold" />
+	  	<GridLayout borderWidth="1" borderColor="#efefef" height="60" paddingLeft="5">
+			<Label text="Test Label 1: should be aligned middle" />
+		</GridLayout>
+		<GridLayout marginTop="10" borderWidth="1" borderColor="#efefef" height="60" paddingLeft="5">
+			<Label text="Test Label 2: should be aligned bottom" verticalAlignment="bottom" />
+		</GridLayout>
+		<GridLayout marginTop="10" borderWidth="1" borderColor="#efefef" height="60" paddingLeft="5">
+			<Label text="Test Label 3: should be aligned top" verticalAlignment="top" />
+		</GridLayout>
+        <Label text="maxLines 2" fontWeight="bold" marginTop="10" />
         <Label
 				text="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."
 				textWrap="true"
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/label/index.android.ts b/packages/core/ui/label/index.android.ts
index 12cbb3f9c..3de3e617f 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/label/index.android.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/label/index.android.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ export class Label extends TextBase implements LabelDefinition {
 		const textView = this.nativeTextViewProtected;
 		textView.setSingleLine(true);
 		textView.setEllipsize(android.text.TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
+		textView.setGravity(android.view.Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);
 	}
 
 	[whiteSpaceProperty.setNative](value: CoreTypes.WhiteSpaceType) {