Getting default padding for AlertDialog

Question

I need to make a AlertDialog with a custom view. The message of a AlertDialog has a default padding but when i set a view it has no padding, i wand to

Answer 1

Just to add a more complete answer of how to use it:

You can use in the layout XML file android:paddingStart="?dialogPreferredPadding" and android:paddingEnd="?dialogPreferredPadding" .

Alternatively, if you want to do it by code:

@JvmStatic
fun getDimensionFromAttribute(context: Context, attr: Int): Int {
    val typedValue = TypedValue()
    return if (context.theme.resolveAttribute(attr, typedValue, true)) 
           TypedValue.complexToDimensionPixelSize(typedValue.data, context.resources.displayMetrics) 
           else 0
}

usage:

val alertDialogPadding = getDimensionFromAttribute(context, R.attr.dialogPreferredPadding)
view.setPadding(alertDialogPadding, 0, alertDialogPadding, 0)

If you use a CheckBox (and maybe some other views), I don't think it's possible to set the paddings or margins so that it will get aligned nicely with other views in the dialog, unless you wrap it with a different view, or extend it