Aligning drawableLeft with text of button

Question

Here is my layout:

The issue I\'m facing is with the drawable checkmark. H

Answer 1

In our case, we wanted to use the default Button class (to inherit its various styles and behaviors) and we needed to be able to create the button in code. Also, in our case we could have text, an icon (left drawable), or both.

The goal was to center the icon and/or text as a group when the button width was wider than wrap_content.

public class CenteredButton extends Button
{
    public CenteredButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);

        // We always want our icon and/or text grouped and centered.  We have to left align the text to
        // the (possible) left drawable in order to then be able to center them in our onDraw() below.
        //
        setGravity(Gravity.LEFT|Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas)
    {
        // We want the icon and/or text grouped together and centered as a group.

        // We need to accommodate any existing padding
        //
        float buttonContentWidth = getWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight();

        // In later versions of Android, an "all caps" transform is applied to buttons.  We need to get
        // the transformed text in order to measure it.
        //
        TransformationMethod method = getTransformationMethod();
        String buttonText = ((method != null) ? method.getTransformation(getText(), this) : getText()).toString();
        float textWidth = getPaint().measureText(buttonText);

        // Compute left drawable width, if any
        //
        Drawable[] drawables = getCompoundDrawables();
        Drawable drawableLeft = drawables[0];
        int drawableWidth = (drawableLeft != null) ? drawableLeft.getIntrinsicWidth() : 0;

        // We only count the drawable padding if there is both an icon and text
        //
        int drawablePadding = ((textWidth > 0) && (drawableLeft != null)) ? getCompoundDrawablePadding() : 0;

        // Adjust contents to center
        //
        float bodyWidth = textWidth + drawableWidth + drawablePadding;
        canvas.translate((buttonContentWidth - bodyWidth) / 2, 0);

        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }
}