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How to style a Button element in Android UI?

My button looks like this"
How can i make a simple button same as this
and this is sample of my xml code:
<Button
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="MatchCenter"
android:elevation="10dp"
android:paddingBottom="5dp"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:drawableTop="#drawable/football"
android:singleLine="true"
android:background="#drawable/my_button"
android:id="#+id/MatchCenter"
android:textAllCaps="false"
/>

Try using a 9-patch as your background https://developer.android.com/studio/write/draw9patch.html

How to reduce space between radiobuttons in a radiogroup in android?

In my app, I have a dialog that contains a radiogroup with four radio buttons. My issue is that it looks good in emulator but when I install and run my app in phone, the radiobuttons get more space between each one of them. This makes the radiogroup stretch outside of my Dialog.
Please help me with this.
Thank you.
<RadioGroup
android:id="#+id/radio_RemindAtDlg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="130dp"
android:layout_marginTop="110dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp" >
<RadioButton
android:id="#+id/radio_OnceDlg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Once"
android:button="#drawable/radio_button"
android:textSize="12dp" />
<RadioButton
android:id="#+id/radio_WeekDlg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Every Week"
android:button="#drawable/radio_button"
android:textSize="12dp" />
<RadioButton
android:id="#+id/radio_MonthDlg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Every Month"
android:button="#drawable/radio_button"
android:textSize="12dp" />
<RadioButton
android:id="#+id/radio_YearDlg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Every Year"
android:button="#drawable/radio_button"
android:textSize="12dp" />
</RadioGroup>

Define your own radio buttons with your own sizes, shapes and spaces between components:
http://blog.devminded.com/posts/custom-android-radiobutton
another example
https://stackoverflow.com/a/17693303/1276374

Without code hard to tell but I would guess that you have the xml height attribute set to fill_parent instead of wrap_content

how to add space in start when add image in button

how do I add some space when adding image in button? this is my code below and the image is URL which show image button and text on the button but the image shows left most side of the button.
I want to add some space in the start of the image like this image which URL is.
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="45dp"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button android:id="#+id/MyAccountbutton"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_height="25dip"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginRight="35dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="35dip"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/Handshake"
android:background="#drawable/curvedplanebutton"
android:textColor="#drawable/button_text_color"
android:layout_marginTop="15dip"
android:text="Payments"/>
</LinearLayout>

Add some android:drawablePadding so that image will have some space. Change your button code with below code:
<Button android:id="#+id/MyAccountbutton"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_height="25dip"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginRight="35dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="35dip"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/Handshake"
android:drawablePadding="5dp"
android:background="#drawable/curvedplanebutton"
android:textColor="#drawable/button_text_color"
android:layout_marginTop="15dip"
android:text="Payments"/>

Add android:drawablePadding="16dip" and android:paddingLeft="16dip" to the Button.

LinearLayout text wrap problem when having two buttons of same size plus one stretched in the center

Looks like there's a plenty of questions about centering, same size etc, but so far I didn't find the exactly my case so I dare to ask :)
What I need is a layout of three buttons like this:
[ previous ][*select*] [ next ]
where [previous] and [next] buttons are of the same size (i.e. in this case, size of the [previous] button as it is bigger), and the [*select*] button should stretch to occupy all of the available width.
Following the hints of making two buttons in LinearLayout same sized, i came up with the following xml file:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/button_bar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Previous" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:text="Select" />
<Button
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Next" />
</LinearLayout>
This almost works :)
Except one thing: instead of making Next button to match the size of Previous button, android makes Previous button to be the size of the Next :)
And because of this the text "Previous" gets wrapped in two lines, like
Previ
ous
Dunno if this is a bug or not, but can you advice me a workaround or some another way to achive the desired layout?
Thank you!

I'd suggest using a RelativeLayout
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/buttons"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:clickable="false">
<Button
android:id="#+id/previous"
android:layout_width="30dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Previous"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/next"
android:layout_width="30dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Next"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Select"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/previous"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/next" />
</RelativeLayout>
This should work.

If you are including "android:layout_weight" you should give either "android:layout_width" or "android:layout_height" as "fill_parent"
modify your code like this
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/button_bar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:text="Previous" />
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1.5"
android:text="Select" />
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:text="Next" />

In that sort of case I would go for a TableLayout, in which you have one row, and a weight of 1 for EACH button. and the stretchColumn attribute put to column 1. Does this make any difference?

I'm not sure if you can match a size to some other besides by doing this in code. The easiest solution is probably adjusting the previous and next button widths in dp/sp units until they look good and have the select button be the only one with the layout_weight attribute.

Problem with sizes of EditText and Button in Android

I want to make the edittext width the same size as button. My EditText is currently very small. I use relative layout.
<TextView
android:id="#+id/aha4"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="17dip"
android:text="Vzdevek:"
android:layout_below="#id/aha3" />
<EditText android:id="#+id/nick"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/nivo"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/aha4"/>
<Button android:id="#+id/poslji"
android:text="Pošlji"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="20dip"
android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="bold"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_below="#id/nivo"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/nick"/>
What i currently get is this:
alt text http://www.shrani.si/f/1Z/x8/2lWB3f8p/device.png
What is the appropriate layout_width for edittext and button?

As you are using something like a row to show the TextView, EditText and button, you can try to use TableLayout: http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-tablelayout.html
Also, make sure you set android:layout_width="wrap_content" so that the EditText use as much space as possible.

Try to assign equal weight to both button and edit text
Yeah, you're right about weight.
As a hack you can do this. Not exactly right though.
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/aha4"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="17dip"
android:text="Vzdevek:" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/poslji"
android:text="Pošlji"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="40dip"
android:paddingRight="40dip"
android:typeface="serif"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/nick"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/aha4"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/poslji" />
</RelativeLayout>

I managed to solve it with specifying minWidth and maxWidth for EditText.