Android: set just one padding of textview programmatically

Question

I want to set the top padding of a textview programmatically. I know you can do this with the method setPadding(). But the problem is that this method requires 4 parameters: left, top, right, bottom. I don't want to change the left, right and bottom, I just want to change the top padding.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

use

    yourTextView.setPadding(0, 10, 0, 0); 

Adjust only the parameters you need and set the other ones to zero.

If you need to preserve other existing paddings, use yourView.getPaddingLeft(), yourView.getPaddingTop() and so on.

Answer 2

I usually create a simple utility method just to not forget, or misplace the other paddings:

public static void setPaddingLeft(View v, int leftPaddingDp) {     int leftPaddingPx = dpToPx(leftPaddingDp);     v.setPadding(leftPaddingPx, v.getPaddingTop(), v.getPaddingRight(), v.getPaddingBottom()); } 

To be used later like this, supplying dp units, as if would in xmls:

Utils.setPaddingLeft(myExampleTextView, 10)