How can I shrink the drawable on a button?

Question

how can I make the drawable on a button smaller? The icon is too big, actually higher than the button. This is the code I am using:

    <Button     android:background="@drawable/red_button"     android:drawableLeft="@drawable/s_vit"     android:id="@+id/ButtonTest"     android:gravity="left|center_vertical"      android:text="S-SERIES CALCULATOR"     android:textColor="@android:color/white"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_marginLeft="25dp"     android:layout_marginRight="25dp"     android:drawablePadding="10dp">     </Button> 

The upper is how it should look, the lower how it looks right now.

I tried this but there is no image displayed. :-(

    Resources res = getResources();     ScaleDrawable sd = new ScaleDrawable(res.getDrawable(R.drawable.s_vit), 0, 10f, 10f);     Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.ButtonTest);     btn.setCompoundDrawables(sd.getDrawable(), null, null, null); 

Answer 1

I have found a very simple and effective XML solution that doesn't require ImageButton

Make a drawable file for your image as below and use it for android:drawableLeft

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">      <item     android:id="@+id/half_overlay"     android:drawable="@drawable/myDrawable"     android:width="40dp"     android:height="40dp"     />  </layer-list> 

You can set the image size with android:width and android:height properties.

This way you could at least get the same size for different screens.

The drawback is that it is not exactly like fitXY which would scale image width to fit X and scale image height accordingly.

Answer 2

You should use a ImageButton and specify the image in android:src, and set android:scaletype to fitXY

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Setting scaled drawable in code

Drawable drawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.s_vit); drawable.setBounds(0, 0, (int)(drawable.getIntrinsicWidth()*0.5),                           (int)(drawable.getIntrinsicHeight()*0.5)); ScaleDrawable sd = new ScaleDrawable(drawable, 0, scaleWidth, scaleHeight); Button btn = findViewbyId(R.id.yourbtnID); btn.setCompoundDrawables(sd.getDrawable(), null, null, null); //set drawableLeft for example