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I have this issue on my EditText and Button views, where I have a nice padding for them to space away from the text, but when I change the background with setBackgroundDrawable or setBackgroundResource that padding is lost forever.
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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.
Supported file types are PNG (preferred), JPG (acceptable), and GIF (discouraged). App icons, logos, and other graphics, such as those used in games, are well suited for this technique. To use an image resource, add your file to the res/drawable/ directory of your project.
What I found was adding a 9 patch as a background resource reset the padding - although interestingly if I added a color, or non-9 patch image, it didn't. The solution was to save the padding values before the background gets added, then set them again afterwards.
private EditText value = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.value); int pL = value.getPaddingLeft(); int pT = value.getPaddingTop(); int pR = value.getPaddingRight(); int pB = value.getPaddingBottom(); value.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.bkg); value.setPadding(pL, pT, pR, pB); If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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