In the new Material Design (using AppCompat), I am trying to align some action icons with the drawer icon of the new toolbar. Something like:
The problem is that I can't perfectly align it, because after that left padding of 16px, the icons should start, but the icon itself has also some "padding" (icon from material github)
Yes, the icon must have some padding and it varies depending on which screen resolution the icon will be displayed.
The padding for different screen density:
mdpi 4px * 1.0 = 4px
hdpi 4px * 1.5 = 6px
xhdpi 4px * 2.0 = 8px
xxhdpi 4px * 3.0 = 12px
xxxhdpi 4px * 4.0 = 16px
This is the padding included in the icon drawable and you shouldn't remove it.
http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/icons.html#icons-system-icons