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Textview next to an ImageView

I am trying to have a TextView with an ImageView directly to its right. Right now the image partially overlaps the far right of the text, so if the text inputted is long, then the image is "over" the text. I have an ellipse setting on the text but I need the TextView to "stop" right at the left border of the ImageView.
TextView layout settings:
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
ImageView layout settings:
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"

Try this:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/iv"
android:singleLine="true"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
.... />
<!-- background == #null if you don't want default button background -->
<ImageButton
android:id="#id/iv"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_margin="3dp"
android:background="#null"
.... />
</RelativeLayout>
EDIT
See the comments in regards to why this works and the posted question doesn't. Also take a look at
Android Relative Layout alignParentRight and alignParentEnd
for a reference to end/right and start/left attributes.

Set drawable position inside button

I've got a button and a drawable on the left of the text, but I want the drawable to be closer to the text. So I need to move the drawable.
I've defined android:drawableLeft but the content of the button is not centered.
Here is my code:
<Button
android:id="#+id/addsubject"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_action_add"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:text="#string/addsubject"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:background="#drawable/custombutton1" />
Here is how it looks now:
And here is how I'd like it to be:
Thank you!

Use the app:iconGravity="textStart" attribute in the MaterialButton
<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
app:icon="#drawable/ic_add_24px"
app:iconGravity="textStart"
../>
If you want to reduce the padding between the icon and the text just use the app:iconPadding attribute:
<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
app:icon="#drawable/ic_add_24px"
app:iconGravity="textStart"
app:iconPadding="0dp"/>

try this
<Button
android:id="#+id/addsubject"
android:layout_width="160dip"
android:layout_height="60dip"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_action_add"
android:drawablePadding="2dip"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingLeft="30dip"
android:paddingRight="26dip"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="#string/addsubject"
android:textSize="13dip" />

I got this result by simply putting these properties to the button specifically
<Button
...
android:paddingLeft="60dp"
android:drawablePadding="-50dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/your_button_icon"
/>
You can tune in with your own values for your desired results.
Cheers :-)

I done this simply using paddingLeft and paddingRight. Its works!
...
android:paddingLeft="25dp"
android:paddingRight="25dp"/>

You can use LinearLayout as your button by adding OnClickListener and customize however you want.
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="160dip"
android:layout_height="60dip"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:background="#drawable/custombutton1">
<ImageView android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_action_add"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:scaleType="center">
</ImageView>
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/addsubject"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
</LinearLayout>

The padding between the left border of button and right border of the icon is controlled by android:paddingLeft property. The padding between the icon and the text is defined by android:drawablePadding property.
Add these two properties to you button and set the values you are happy with.
<Button
...
android:paddingLeft="24dp"
android:drawablePadding="8dp"
/>

There's also other possibilities that you want to inflate the drawable/icon programatically, after reading a while and using a lot of combination using XMLs, but still doesn't works,
You might want to fork below library instead, to suits your use-cases, such as, customizing the view, position, etc programatically, see below reference:
Drawable/icon aligned with text, see sample here
Button like facebook sign-in, see sample here
For RadioButton, see full gist code here
P.S: Copyrighted and regards to the author

for Materialbutton, you have to use the icon attribute and you can also change its tint with iconTint like this example:
<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:icon="#drawable/ic_cancel"
app:iconTint="#color/black"
android:text="text" />

How do you remove the extra inner padding inside a Spinner button in an Android layout?

I am trying to create a Button that looks like a Spinner.
I have done this by creating a Button like this:
<Button
android:id="#+id/dateButton"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/dateLabel"
android:text="default text"
android:textSize="15sp"
style="?android:attr/spinnerStyle"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal" />
The problem is that the text ("default text") inside the Button seems to have extra padding around it, which makes the Button look bloated and expanded in its height.
I thought that setting the layout_height for the button to "wrap_content" would fix this and make the button thinner, but it does not have any effect.
Does anyone know how to make this button's height wrap to the text inside it?
Here is the example code:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/dateLabel"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="25dp"
android:text="Select date:"
android:textSize="15sp" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/dateButton"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/dateLabel"
android:text="default text"
android:textSize="15sp"
style="?android:attr/spinnerStyle"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal" />
</RelativeLayout>

android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal" instead of this you can write
android:gravity="center" but as per your requirment just remove this line.do not add any gravity and change your height size android:layout_height="40dp"
i changed your code
<Button
android:id="#+id/dateButton"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="35dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/dateLabel"
android:text="default text"
style="?android:attr/spinnerStyle"
/>

The padding of this button is decided by the drawable of it. You either need to change the spinner drawable (can be done at runtime) , or provide your own drawable to the given button that would make it look like a spinner, without using the default one

Android button with icon and text

I have some buttons like this in my app:
<Button
android:id="#+id/bSearch"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="16dp"
android:text="Search"
android:textSize="24sp" />
I'm trying to create a same button with text and a icon.
android:drawableLeft doesn't work for me (Maybe it would, but i don't know how to set a max height to the icon).
So i created a LinearLayout with a ImageView and a TextView and made it act like a button:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/bSearch2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:drawable/btn_default"
android:clickable="true"
android:padding="16dp"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:maxHeight="30dp"
android:maxWidth="30dp"
android:scaleType="fitCenter"
android:src="#drawable/search_icon" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvSearchCaption"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:textSize="24sp"
android:paddingRight="30dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Search" />
</LinearLayout>
My new button is exactly what i want (font size, icon and text placement).
But it doesn't look like my default buttons:
So i tried, to change the background and the text color of my new Button:
Button Search = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bSearch);
LinearLayout bSearch2 = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.bSearch2);
bSearch2.setBackground(bSearch.getBackground());
TextView tvSearchCaption = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvSearchCaption);
tvSearchCaption.setTextColor(bSearch.getTextColors().getDefaultColor());
This gives a strange result, my old button, gets messed up:
When i change the order of these two buttons in the XML, so the "new button" goes first, it makes another strange result:
Now i noticed, that when i try to press the old button, the new one gets pressed.
Any ideas?

Try this one.
<Button
android:id="#+id/bSearch"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="16dp"
android:text="Search"
android:drawableLeft="#android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
android:textSize="24sp"/>

To add an image to left, right, top or bottom, you can use attributes like this:
android:drawableLeft
android:drawableRight
android:drawableTop
android:drawableBottom
The sample code is given above. You can also achieve this using relative layout.

You can use the Material Components Library and the MaterialButton component.
Use the app:icon and app:iconGravity="start" attributes.
Something like:
<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.Icon"
app:icon="#drawable/..."
app:iconGravity="start"
../>

For anyone looking to do this dynamically then setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(Drawable left, Drawable top, Drawable right, Drawable bottom) on the buttons object will assist.
Sample
Button search = (Button) findViewById(R.id.yoursearchbutton);
search.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds('your_drawable',null,null,null);

This is what you really want.
<Button
android:id="#+id/settings"
android:layout_width="190dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/ic_settings_black_24dp"
android:paddingStart="40dp"
android:paddingEnd="40dp"
android:text="settings"
android:textColor="#FFF" />

#Liem Vo's answer is correct if you are using android.widget.Button without any overriding. If you are overriding your theme using MaterialComponents, this will not solve the issue.
So if you are
Using com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
or
Overriding AppTheme using MaterialComponents
Use app:icon parameter.
<Button
android:id="#+id/bSearch"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="16dp"
android:text="Search"
android:textSize="24sp"
app:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_search" />

What about like this?
<Button
android:id="#+id/yourID"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/ic_flag"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textAlignment="textStart"
android:background="#drawable/btn_background"
android:fontFamily="#font/YourFont"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Your Text" />

try It:-
position-> left,right,top,bottom
android:drawableposition="#android:drawable/-yourImage-"
android:drawabletop="-Yourfilesrc-"
android:drawablebottom="-Yourfilesrc-"
android:drawableleft="-Yourfilesrc-"
android:drawableright="-Yourfilesrc-"

I was experiencing the same problem with pure Button view. In my case XML solution was not usefull, because I have some logic to show/hide this icon.
There is one more solution using pure Kotlin:
(bSearch as? MaterialButton)?.let {
icon = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, R.drawable.search_icon)
iconGravity = MaterialButton.ICON_GRAVITY_START
}
P.S. We can cast Button to MaterialButton as fair as we can use icon param in Button: icon param is not actually Button param - it is sneaky MaterialButton param somehow working with Buttons.

How to style a image button without the grey default background?

I define a Button with this code
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/btn_photo_lib"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="startPhotoLibAction"
android:src="#drawable/library_blau" />
and the result is
Does someone know how to remove this grey area behind the image?
Thanks

Change ImageButton into ImageView or change android:src into android:background.

set background property of ImageButton instead of src.

There are 2 ways:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/btn_photo_lib"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="startPhotoLibAction"
android:src="#drawable/library_blau"
android:clickable="true" />
or:
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/btn_photo_lib"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="startPhotoLibAction"
android:background="#drawable/library_blau" />

You add android:background = "#android:color/transparent" as backgorund for your image button
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/btn_photo_lib"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="startPhotoLibAction"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:src="#drawable/library_blau" />