How to add an icon before each item in alert dialog?

Question

I am using an AlertDialog (see the below code) and would like to put an image before each text.

For example, email icon then text \"Email\", Facebook icon then text

Answer 1

Do something like this:

ViewGroup layout=new LinearLayout(context);
TextView tv=new TextView(context); //your text
tv.setText("my text"); 
ImageView imageView=new ImageView(context); //your icon
//filling image view with icon bitmap (in this case from resource)
imageView.setImageBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeStream(context.getResources().openRawResource(resourceId)));
//ensuring that icon size will be more or less like text height
imageView.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
imageView.setMaxHeight((int )(tv.getLineHeight()*1.5));
imageView.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE);
layout.addView(imageView); //adding icon
tv.setGravity(Gravity.BOTTOM|Gravity.LEFT);
layout.addView(tv); //adding text

Total idea is to create layout/viewgroup and add icon+text+whatever you want into viewgroup