Padding in ImageView is not Working

Question

I want to make a screen which contains a top bar and an image. I use TextView for the top bar and ImageView for the image. I want to set padding only to the image view. My xml i

Answer 1

You should use layout_margin instead of padding so it should be as following:

and you can specify 1 layout_margin for all directions so instead of using

android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"

you can use:

android:layout_margin="10dip"

hope this is what you are looking for. give me a feedback otherwise ;)

update

you can set cropToPadding also: