Padding not working on ImageButton

Question

In an app I am working on, I have several ImageButtons. Each ImageButton has a background and content in the form of a drawable. Right now the drawable is at maximum size wi

Answer 1

Better use ImageView than ImageButton if you need set image smaller with padding

Answer 2

The padding only has effect on the android:src attribute, not on the android:background.

Set the first to your button image and the latter to android:background="@android:color/transparent"

Answer 3

You have to add to Your ImageButton definition

android:scaleType="fitCenter"

or other scaleType like fitXY, because by default image try to scale as much as possible and ignore padding