Customizing the setError icon for TextView

Question

I want to set a setError method to my TextView, with a custom icon instead of the default Android icon. So I tried this:

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Answer 1

    Drawable customErrorDrawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.error_icon);
        customErrorDrawable.setBounds(0, 0, customErrorDrawable.getIntrinsicWidth(), customErrorDrawable.getIntrinsicHeight());


 editText.setError("please enter data",customErrorDrawable);

Answer 2

If you don't want to show any icon at all, use

editText.setError("error", null);

Answer 3

You need to set the bounds on the drawable before using it in setError.

drawable.setBounds(0, 0, drawable.getIntrinsicWidth(), drawable.getIntrinsicHeight());
editText.setError("error", drawable);

Answer 4

This issue is discussed and resolved here:

EditText setError() with icon but without Popup message

I hope that by extending the answer it would not get auto-converted to a comment.