Aligning drawableLeft with text of button

Question

Here is my layout:

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

Answer 1

I know it's a bit late, but if anyone looking for another answer, here is another way to add icon without the need to wrap button with a ViewGroup

*need to set textAllCaps to false to make the spannable working

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class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        val buttonLabelBuilder = SpannableStringBuilder(btnCamera.text)
        val iconDrawable = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.ic_camera)
        iconDrawable?.setBounds(0, 0, btnCamera.lineHeight, btnCamera.lineHeight)
        val imageSpan = ImageSpan(iconDrawable, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BOTTOM)

        buttonLabelBuilder.insert(0, "i ")
        buttonLabelBuilder.setSpan(imageSpan, 0, 1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE)

        btnCamera.text = buttonLabelBuilder
    }
}

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