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

I made a special class for the purpose of adding empty view above EditText, thus add padding to hint. You can use it as simple TextInputLayout.

public class PaddingTextInputLayout extends TextInputLayout {

public View paddingView;

public PaddingTextInputLayout(Context context) {
    super(context);
}

public PaddingTextInputLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
}

public PaddingTextInputLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
}

@Override
public void addView(View child, int index, ViewGroup.LayoutParams params) {
    super.addView(child, index, params);
    refreshPaddingView();
}

public void addPaddingView(){
    paddingView = new View(getContext());
    int height = (int) getContext().getResources()
            .getDimension(R.dimen.edittext_text_input_layout_padding);
    ViewGroup.LayoutParams paddingParams = new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(
            ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
            height);
    super.addView(paddingView, 0, paddingParams);
}

public void refreshPaddingView(){
    if (paddingView != null) {
        removeView(paddingView);
        paddingView = null;
    }
    addPaddingView();
}
}

This implementation is very simple and stupid, you can improve it a lot.