android:drawableLeft margin and/or padding

Is it possible to set the margin or padding for the image which we added with the android:drawableLeft?

As cephus mentioned android:drawablePadding will only force padding between the text and the drawable if the button is small enough.

When laying out larger buttons you can use android:drawablePadding in conjunction with android:paddingLeft and android:paddingRight to force the text and drawable inward towards the center of the button. By adjusting the left and right padding separately you can make very detailed adjustments to the layout.

Here's an example button that uses padding to push the text and icon closer together than they would be by default:

<Button android:text="@string/button_label" 
    android:id="@+id/buttonId"
    android:layout_width="160dip"
    android:layout_height="60dip"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:textSize="13dip"
    android:drawableLeft="@drawable/button_icon"
    android:drawablePadding="2dip"
    android:paddingLeft="30dip"
    android:paddingRight="26dip"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:gravity="center" />  

TextView has an android:drawablePadding property which should do the trick:

>android:drawablePadding > > The padding between the drawables and the text. > > Must be a dimension value, which is a floating point number appended > with a unit such as "14.5sp". Available units are: px (pixels), dp > (density-independent pixels), sp (scaled pixels based on preferred > font size), in (inches), mm (millimeters). > > This may also be a reference to a resource (in the form > "@[package:]type:name") or theme attribute (in the form > "?[package:][type:]name") containing a value of this type. > > This corresponds to the global attribute resource symbol > drawablePadding.

android:drawablePadding will only create a padding gap between the text and the drawable if the button is small enough to squish the 2 together. If your button is wider than the combined width (for drawableLeft/drawableRight) or height (for drawableTop/drawableBottom) then drawablePadding doesn't do anything.

I'm struggling with this right now as well. My buttons are quite wide, and the icon is hanging on the left edge of the button and the text is centered in the middle. My only way to get around this for now has been to bake in a margin on the drawable by adding blank pixels to the left edge of the canvas with photoshop. Not ideal, and not really recommended either. But thats my stop-gap solution for now, short of rebuilding TextView/Button.

Yes. use drawablePadding as follows,

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvHeader"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Settings and Contents"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/icon_success"
        android:drawablePadding="10dp" />

Make your drawable resources.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_checked="true">
        <inset android:drawable="@drawable/small_m" android:insetLeft="10dp" android:insetTop="10dp" />
    </item>
    <item>
        <inset android:drawable="@drawable/small_p" android:insetLeft="10dp" android:insetTop="10dp" />
    </item>
</selector>

android:drawablePadding is the easiest way to give padding to drawable icon but You can not give specific one side padding like paddingRight or paddingLeft of drawable icon.To achieve that you have to dig into it. And If you apply paddingLeft or paddingRight to Edittext then it will place padding to entire Edittext along with drawable icon.

android:drawablePadding is the easiest way to give padding to drawable icon but You can not give specific one side padding like paddingRight or paddingLeft of drawable icon.To achieve that you have to dig into it. And If you apply paddingLeft or paddingRight to EditText then it will place padding to entire EditText along with drawable icon.

<TextView android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:padding="5dp"
    android:id="@+id/date"
    android:gravity="center|start"
    android:drawableEnd="@drawable/ic_calendar"
    android:background="@drawable/edit_background"
    android:hint="Not Selected"
    android:drawablePadding="10dp"
    android:paddingStart="10dp"
    android:paddingEnd="10dp"
    android:textColor="@color/black"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

define a shape for your edittext and give it a padding For Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="rectangle" >
    <padding
        android:left="5dp"
        android:right="5dp"
    />
    <solid android:color="#F6F6F6" />
    <stroke
        android:width="1px"
        android:color="#C3C3C3" />

    <corners
        android:bottomLeftRadius="1dp"
        android:bottomRightRadius="1dp"
        android:topLeftRadius="1dp"
        android:topRightRadius="1dp" />
</shape>

The padding defined in this shape will help in give padding to drawableleft or right ---------------------- Apply this shape on EditView

 <EditText
            android:id="@+id/example"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="36dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
            android:background="@drawable/shape2"
            android:drawableLeft="@drawable/icon1"
            android:drawablePadding="@dimen/txtDrwblPadding"
            android:ems="10"
         />

using that defined shape as background will give your EditText some style plus margin to drawableLeft.

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="32dp"
    android:background="@drawable/a"
    android:drawableLeft="@drawable/concern_black"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:paddingLeft="10dp"
    android:paddingRight="10dp"
    android:drawablePadding="10dp"
    android:text="text"/>

note: layout_width needs to be wrap_content and use paddingLeft paddingRight drawablePadding to control gap. If you specify layout_width value is will has gap between icon and text, I think once give the layout_width a specify value, the padding will measure.

I'll throw my answer into the ring as well. If you want to do this programmatically you can do the following.

final Drawable drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(getContext(), R.drawable.somedrawable);
final boolean isLTR = ViewCompat.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_LTR == ViewCompat.getLayoutDirection(this);
final int iconInsetPadding = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.icon_padding);

final Drawable insetDrawable = new InsetDrawable(drawable, isLTR ? 0 : iconInsetPadding, 0, isLTR ? iconInsetPadding : 0, 0);

This will add the padding to the end of the drawable where end will mean left/right depending if phone is in LTR or RTL.

Instead of Button use LinearLayout with ImageView and TextView inside. In child items like ImageView and TextView use android:duplicateParentState="true".

You can use a padding for the button and you can play with drawablePadding

 <Button
    style="@style/botonesMenu"
    android:padding="15dp"
    android:drawablePadding="-15dp"
    android:text="@string/actualizarBD"
    android:textAlignment="gravity"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:layout_row="1"
    android:layout_column="0"
    android:drawableTop="@drawable/actualizar"
    android:id="@+id/btnActualizar"
    android:onClick="actualizarBD" />

you can use a specific padding depends where put your drawable, with android:paddingLeft="10dp" or android:paddingBottom="10dp" or android:paddingRight="10dp" or android:paddingTop="10dp"

You should consider using layer-list

Create a drawable file like this, name it as ic_calendar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="@android:color/transparent"/>
    </shape>
</item>
<item android:right="10dp">
    <bitmap android:gravity="center_vertical|left"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_calendar_16dp"
        android:tint="@color/red"
        />
</item>
</layer-list>

Under layout file,

<TextView
         android:id="@+id/tvDate"
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_calendar"
         android:textColor="@color/colorGrey"
         android:textSize="14sp" 
    />

Another easy solution can be achieved by inset layerlist

layered_drawable

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item>
        <inset
            android:insetRight="30dp"
            android:drawable="@drawable/ic_air_date">
        </inset>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Button in XML

<Button
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:drawableLeft="@drawable/layered_drawable"
    android:text="something" />

You can use android:drawableLeft="@drawable/your_icon" to set the drawable to be shown on the left side. In order to set a padding for the drawable you should use the android:paddingLeft or android:paddingRight to set the left/right padding respectively.

android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:paddingLeft="20dp"
android:drawableRight="@drawable/ic_app_manager"

just remake from:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <corners android:radius="40dp"/>

    <solid android:color="@android:color/white"/>

</shape>

to

<layer-list
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
            android:right="@dimen/_2dp"
            android:left="@dimen/_2dp"
            android:bottom="@dimen/_2dp"
            android:top="@dimen/_2dp"
            >
        <shape
                xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

            <corners android:radius="40dp"/>

            <solid android:color="@android:color/white"/>

        </shape>
    </item>

</layer-list>

If the size of drawable resouce is fixed, you can do like this:

<Button
    android:background="@drawable/rounded_button_green"
    style="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:layout_widthPercent="70%"
    android:drawableRight="@drawable/ic_clear_black_24dp"
    android:paddingRight="10dp"
    android:paddingLeft="34dp"
    tools:text="example" />

The key here is that:

    android:drawableRight="@drawable/ic_clear_black_24dp"
    android:paddingRight="10dp"
    android:paddingLeft="34dp"

That is, the size of drawable resource plus paddingRight is the paddingLeft.

You can see the result in this example

textView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(AppCompatResources.getDrawable(this,drawable),null,null,null);

addressTitleView.setCompoundDrawablePadding();

Tries to use negative padding

Like:

android:paddingLeft="-8dp"