Align drawable image inside a text view to center

Question

I have a textview which holds an image and some text.

programmatically i have added the drawable image to the left side of text view

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Answer 1

Embed the drawable in your text by using a SpannableString.

        SpannableStringBuilder textspan = new SpannableStringBuilder("  " + yourText);
        Drawable icon = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.fav_enabled);
        // jump drawable to the text view's state (if it is a state drawable)
        icon.setState(textView.getBackground().getState());  // match the background state
        textspan.setSpan(new ImageSpan(icon, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BOTTOM), 0, 1, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
        textView.setText(textspan);