Align ImageView with EditText horizontally

Question

I\'m trying hard to find a way of aligning an EditText and an ImageView properly on Android. I keep getting this result:

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Answer 1

To get rid of the padding in the EditText, just use a custom image as background... rectangle with some shadow is enough... or whatever you like... and assign the background to the EditText using

android:background="@drawable/myBackground"