Keep text in TextView with drawableLeft centered

Question

In my app I have a header bar which consists of a single textview with fill_parent as width, which have a specific background color and some centered text. Now I want to add a d

Answer 1

Though fragile, you can avoid the use of a wrapper Layout by setting a negative padding on the drawable:

You'll have to adjust the padding to the width of the drawable, but you're left with just a single TextView instead of an extra LinearLayout or etc.