Android TextView drawable, change padding between drawable and text?

Question

I am creating a TextView with a drawable underneath, in a GridLayout.

I want to bring the drawable to the middle of the TextView; I tried with setCompoundDrawablePadding(-75) and it only changes the position of the text.

Current code:

    TextView secondItem = new TextView(this);
    GridLayout.LayoutParams second = new GridLayout.LayoutParams(row2, col1);
    second.width = halfOfScreenWidth;
    second.height = (int) (quarterScreenWidth * 1.5);
    secondItem.setLayoutParams(second);
    secondItem.setBackgroundResource(R.color.MenuSecond);
    secondItem.setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds(0, 0, 0, R.drawable.ic_action_new);
    secondItem.setText("Text");
    secondItem.setCompoundDrawablePadding(-180);
    secondItem.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
    secondItem.setTextAppearance(this, android.R.style.TextAppearance_Large_Inverse);
    gridLayout.addView(secondItem, second);

How can I set the text and drawable to the middle of the TextView?

Reeta

Answer 1

You'll need to combine drawablePadding and padding to get the desired result.

Sissy

how would you combine it for different text (different locales for example)? – Valeta

Answer 2

In XML:

android:drawablePadding = paddingValue

or

Programmatically:

TextView txt;

txt.setCompoundDrawablePadding(paddingValue)

android:drawablePadding is the easiest way to give padding to the drawable icon but you can not give specific one side padding like paddingRight or paddingLeft of the drawable icon. This gives padding to either side of the drawable.

Rawlins

Answer 3

  <Button
            android:id="@+id/otherapps"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:background="@drawable/btn_background"
            android:text="@string/other_apps"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:fontFamily="cursive"
            android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
            android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_more"
            android:paddingLeft="8dp" //for drawable padding to the left
            android:textColor="@android:color/holo_red_light" />`enter code here`

Console

Answer 4

You can use layer-list.

Before:

Create xml for shape - shape_rectangle.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:right="5dp">
    <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="@color/my_color" />
        <size
            android:width="5dp"
            android:height="5dp" />
    </shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

After:

In xml, there is something like android:right. You can add also top,left,bottom. This way you can give for example: padding left and right to drawable without resizing total height of textView.

Tardy