TextInputLayout :How to give padding or margin to hint?

Question

I have to use TextInputLayout of design support library in my project. I want to give space between hint and EditText in TextInp

Answer 1

The solution proposed by ganesh2shiv works for the most part, although I've found it also de-centres the hint text displayed inside the EditText when not focused.

A better trick is to set the desired paddingTop to the EditText but also embed the extra padding within the EditText's background. A fairly sane way to do this is to wrap your original background in a and set the attribute to match the paddingTop of your EditText.

And the bg_edit_text.xml drawable file:

  
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