Android - Spacing between CheckBox and text

Question

Is there an easy way to add padding between the checkbox in a CheckBox control, and the associated text?

I cannot just add leading spaces, because my label is multi-

Answer 1

If you are creating custom buttons, e.g. see change look of checkbox tutorial

Then simply increase the width of btn_check_label_background.9.png by adding one or two more columns of transparent pixels in the center of the image; leave the 9-patch markers as they are.