Set actual text padding in TextView with compound drawables

Question

I have a ListView populated with an ArrayAdapter. For items I use just a single TextView layout. I want some of the rows to have compound

Answer 1

I'm posting this as an answer so that someone, who comes across this post finds the answer.

There's no direct way to set a padding only to text, but you can set a positive padding to the whole TextView and set a negative padding for the drawable.