Doesn't work EditText padding in the API 21

Question

Doesn\'t work EditText padding in the API 21. I try to do it in empty project, only with single editText, but it still doesn\'t work.

Set padding programmatically works

Answer 1

Solved it in styles, using android standart edittext:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:editTextStyle">@android:style/Widget.EditText</item>
</style>

Answer 2

Not really the best way to work around the problem, but it works for me: you can set android:layout_height attribute to some fixed value and set android:gravity to center or center_vertical

<EditText
        ...
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        .../>

Answer 3

This is android bug. In future it will be fix.

Bug report on google code.

Answer 4

Just replace android:paddingLeft with android:paddingStart, as should be anyway and fixes this bug on those devices.

Answer 5

Try to give padding programmatically by using method setLayoutParams() it will work i am hopeful Ref: Example

Answer 6

Solved it by creating a custom edittext with padding and use it in xml.

public class MyEditTextView extends EditText{

public MyEditTextView(Context context) {
    super(context);
    init();
}

public MyEditTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    init();
}

public MyEditTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    init();
}

private void init(){
    int paddingLeftRight = (int) getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.edittext_padding);
    int topPadding = this.getPaddingTop();
    int bottomPadding = this.getPaddingBottom();
    setPadding(paddingLeftRight, topPadding, paddingLeftRight, bottomPadding);
}

}