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

As you probably use a drawable selector for your android:button property you need to add android:constantSize="true" and/or specify a default drawable like this:

After that you need to specify android:paddingLeft attribute in your checkbox xml.

Cons:

In the layout editor you will the text going under the checkbox with api 16 and below, in that case you can fix it by creating you custom checkbox class like suggested but for api level 16.

Rationale:

it is a bug as StateListDrawable#getIntrinsicWidth() call is used internally in CompoundButton but it may return < 0 value if there is no current state and no constant size is used.