How to place Compound drawable on top left of Text View

Question

We can set compound drawables for textview as below using drawableLeft or setCompundDrawables but using this its only possible to place the drawable on left / right / top / bottom.But i want to put drawables only at top-left and top-right of the Textview. How can i do that ?

Answer 1

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

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imageView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imageView1"
    android:text="@string/text" />

This would do it.

Answer 2

I think, there's an easier and faster way than have 3 views. You need to prepare proper 9patch for icon and then use FrameLayout. It's even possible to have only single EditText / TextView using the same drawable as their background. More details are described in this answer.