How to have Image and Text Center within a Button

Question

I want to display TEXT and Icon on a Button.

+----------------------------+
|          Icon TEXT         |
+---------------------         


        

Answer 1

This is a hack, but worked for me with a negative margin:

<Button
    android:id="@+id/some_id"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:drawableStart="@drawable/some_drawable"
    android:drawablePadding="-118dp"
    android:paddingEnd="28dp"
    android:text="@string/some_string" />

A better way would probably be doing this in a custom view

Answer 2

You can just set a padding depending on button size and image size:

Button button1 = null;
//initialize button….
ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = button1.getLayoutParams();
int btn1Width = ((int) (0.33 * (double)ecranWidth));
params.width = btn1Width;
button1.setLayoutParams(params);
button1.setPadding((btn1Width/2-9), 0, 0, 0);
//where (btn1Width/2-9)   =   size of button divided on 2 minux half size of icon… 

Answer 3

The easy way (albeit not perfect) is to set the paddingRight to the same width as your icon.

Answer 4

android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal|center" >

Answer 5

This should work

<LinearLayout        

android:layout_width="fill_parent"        
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
android:gravity="center_horizontal">    
<TextView          
    android:id="@+id/button_text"        
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"         
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"        
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"        
     android:text="hello" />    
 <ImageView        
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"        
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:paddingBottom="10dip"
/>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 6

You can fake it by making a more complex layout, but I'm not sure whether it's worth it. Here's something I hacked together:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Button
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/foreground"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@id/foreground"
    android:layout_alignRight="@id/foreground"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@id/foreground"
    android:onClick="clickedMe" />
   <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@id/foreground"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <TextView  
        android:id="@+id/button_text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true" 
        android:text="@string/hello" />
    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/button_text"
        android:paddingTop="10dip"
        android:paddingBottom="10dip"
        android:src="@drawable/icon" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

There might be a more concise way to do it. I tend to struggle getting RelativeLayout to do what I want sometimes. Note that you need to pay attention to the z-order (Button needs to appear first in the top level RelativeLayout) and you might need to adjust padding to get it to look the way you want.