Add margin between a RadioButton and its label in Android?

Question

Is it possible to add a little bit of space between a RadioButton and the label while still using Android\'s built-in components? By default the text looks a little scrunche

Answer 1

Add margin between a radiobutton its label by paddingLeft:

android:paddingLeft="10dip"

Just set your custom padding.

RadioButton's xml property.

<RadioButton
    android:id="@+id/radHighest"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:button="@drawable/YourImageResource"
    android:drawablePadding="50dp"
    android:paddingLeft="10dip"
    android:text="@string/txt_my_text"
    android:textSize="12sp" />

Done

Answer 2

<RadioButton
                android:id="@+id/rb1"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
                android:background="@null"
                android:paddingLeft="20dp"
                android:text="1"
                android:textColor="@color/text2"
                android:textSize="16sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

Answer 3

i tried several ways and finished with this one working correctly on both emulator and devices:

    <RadioButton
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
        android:button="@null"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/your_own_selector"
        android:drawablePadding="@dimen/your_spacing" />

• android:background needs to be transparent as it seems on api10 there is a background with intrinsic paddings (not tried with other apis but the solution works on others too)
• android:button needs to be null as paddings will not work correctly otherwise
• android:drawableLeft needs to be specified instead of android:button
• android:drawablePadding is the space that will be between your drawable and your text

Answer 4

Create a style in style.xml like this

<style name="Button.Radio">

    <item name="android:paddingLeft">@dimen/spacing_large</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
</style>

Put that style in radio button

 <RadioButton
                android:id="@+id/rb_guest_busy"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="48dp"
                android:text="@string/guest_is_waiting"
                android:textSize="@dimen/font_size_3x_medium"
                android:drawablePadding="@dimen/spacing_large"
                android:textColor="@color/color_text_heading_dark"
                style="@style/Button.Radio"/>

You can change any attribute same as button as it RadioButton indirectly inherits button.

Answer 5

Use the following XML attributes. It worked for me

For API <= 16 use

android:paddingLeft="16dp"

For API >= 17 use

android:paddingStart="@16dp"

Eg:

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
        android:id="@+id/popularityRadioButton"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:checked="true"
        android:paddingEnd="@dimen/radio_button_text"
        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/radio_button_text"
        android:paddingRight="@dimen/radio_button_text"
        android:paddingStart="@dimen/radio_button_text"
        android:text="Popularity"
        android:textSize="@dimen/sort_dialog_text_size"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.RadioButton" />

Further More: drawablePadding attribute doesn't work. It only works if you added a drawable in your radio button. For Eg:

<RadioButton
    android:id="@+id/radioButton"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:button="@null"
    android:drawableEnd="@android:drawable/btn_radio"
    android:drawablePadding="56dp"
    android:drawableRight="@android:drawable/btn_radio"
    android:text="New RadioButton" />

Answer 6

I came here looking for an answer and the simplest way (after some thinking) was add spacing at the beginning of the label itself like so

<RadioGroup
     android:orientation="horizontal"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_alignRight="@+id/btnChangeMode"
     android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
     android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
     android:layout_below="@+id/view3"
     android:gravity="center|left"
     android:id="@+id/ledRadioGroup">
<RadioButton
         android:button="@drawable/custom_radio_button"
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:text=" On"
         android:layout_marginRight="6dp"
         android:id="@+id/ledon"
         android:textColor="@color/white" />
<RadioButton
         android:button="@drawable/custom_radio_button"
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:text=" Off"
         android:layout_marginLeft="6dp"
         android:id="@+id/ledoff"
         android:textColor="@color/white" />