Programmatically set left drawable in a TextView

Question

I have a textView in xml here.

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/bookTitle"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/checkmark"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:textSize="24dip"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:ellipsize="end"/>

As you can see I set the DrawableLeft in xml.

I would like to change the drawable in code.

Is there anyway to go about doing this? Or setting the drawableLeft in code for the text view?

Answer 1

You can use setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(int left, int top, int right, int bottom)

set 0 where you don't want images

Example for Drawable on the left:

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTxtView);
textView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(R.drawable.icon, 0, 0, 0);

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Tip: Whenever you know any XML attribute but don't have clue about how to use it at runtime. just go to the description of that property in developer doc. There you will find Related Methods if it's supported at runtime . i.e. For DrawableLeft

Answer 2

From here I see the method setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(int,int,int,int) can be used to do this.

Answer 3

You can use any of the following methods for setting the Drawable on TextView:

1- setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(int, int, int, int)

2- setCompoundDrawables(Left_Drawable, Top_Drawable, Right_Drawable, Bottom_Drawable)

And to get drawable from resources you can use:

getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.your_drawable_id);

Answer 4

static private Drawable **scaleDrawable**(Drawable drawable, int width, int height) {

    int wi = drawable.getIntrinsicWidth();
    int hi = drawable.getIntrinsicHeight();
    int dimDiff = Math.abs(wi - width) - Math.abs(hi - height);
    float scale = (dimDiff > 0) ? width / (float)wi : height /
            (float)hi;
    Rect bounds = new Rect(0, 0, (int)(scale * wi), (int)(scale * hi));
    drawable.setBounds(bounds);
    return drawable;
}