Text leftside of a RadioButton with a margin on Android

Question

I want to have the "label", - the text you set in your RadioButton to show left of the button and have some padding in between.

Adding an additional TextView into the layout doesn't work because my RadioGroup does not work (i can choose multiple buttons) if i add anything other then a RadioButton into the RadioGroup.

So, how can i change the RadioButton to be <text><buttondrawable> instead of <buttondrawable><text>

Answer 1

You can achieve this by setting android:button="@null" and adding the drawable of the RadioButton as android:drawableRight. You can change the Padding between the text and the drawable with android:drawablePadding .

    <RadioGroup
        android:id="@+id/radios"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <RadioButton
            android:id="@+id/first"
            android:button="@null"
            android:drawableRight="@android:drawable/btn_radio"
            android:drawablePadding="20dp"
            android:layout_width="200dip"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/first"
            android:textSize="20dip" />

        <RadioButton
            android:id="@+id/second"
            android:button="@null"
            android:drawableRight="@android:drawable/btn_radio"
            android:drawablePadding="20dp"
            android:layout_width="200dip"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/second"
            android:textSize="20dip" />
    </RadioGroup>
</RelativeLayout>