How to achieve UIButton / UILabel 'padding' in iPhone app

Question

I\'ve got various views in my iPhone application that require padding e.g a custom UIButton with text aligned left, and a UILabel with a background color.

This may be a

Answer 1

If you're just looking for a horizontal padding on one line, then this may be enough (it was for me):

NSString* padding = @"  "; // 2 spaces
myLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@", padding, name, padding];