Adding a text and image on a button programmatically in android

Question

I am trying to have an text and image on a button appear dynamically - the text needs to appear on the left and the image to appear on the right. To give an example, here is an image I would like to get.

After searching through a few other examples on StackOverflow, tried the following code in my activity but it doesnt seem to be working. Can anyone please suggest what I am doing wrong ?

Code :

btn.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#000000"));
btn.setText("SomeText");
btn.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, mediumTextSize);

Drawable icon= getApplicationContext().getResources().getDrawable( R.drawable.cal);
icon.setBounds(0, 0, 0, 0); //Left,Top,Right,Bottom
btn.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds( null, null, icon, null );

How about leaving out the two lines before the last one and just using btn.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(0, 0, R.drawable.cal, 0); ? — Bö macht Blau
– Bö macht Blau, Commented Dec 29, 2018 at 18:48
The linked version of the method will take int values (resource identifiers) — Bö macht Blau
– Bö macht Blau, Commented Dec 29, 2018 at 19:08

Prashanth · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-29 20:36:28Z

I noticed that the size of the image is very important when using it on other objects - when I adjusted the image to a smaller size, my code worked fine....

The same code that I was trying earlier worked for me after resizing the image...

                    Button btn = new Button(this);
                    btn.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#000000"));
                    btn.setText("SomeText");
                    btn.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, mediumTextSize);
                    btn.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER | Gravity.LEFT);
                    Drawable icon= getApplicationContext().getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.cal);
                    btn.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.light_bg);
                    icon.setBounds(0, 0, 0, 0); //Left,Top,Right,Bottom
                    btn.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds( null, null, icon, null);

Thank you all for your help and suggestions !

Android Geek · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-02 05:19:01Z

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Try this

           btn.setText("Some Text");
            btn.setTextAlignment(View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_VIEW_START);
            btn.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER | Gravity.LEFT);
            Drawable myDrawable = 
            getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_cancel_black_24dp);
            btn.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(null,null,myDrawable,null);

answered Jan 2, 2019 at 5:19

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