Keep text in TextView with drawableLeft centered

Question

In my app I have a header bar which consists of a single textview with fill_parent as width, which have a specific background color and some centered text. Now I want to add a d

Answer 1

drawable is part of the TextView, so the textview's height will be the drawable's height if your text's height is smaller than drawable's height.

You can set TextView's gravity attribute to center_vertical, so the text will be in the center.

Answer 2

That work for me.

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/trusted"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="@string/trusted"/>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 3

Remove the DrawableLeft and use a container FrameLayout.

<FrameLayout
     android:id="@+id/container"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

     <ImageView
         android:id="@+id/image"
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
         android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
         android:src="@drawable/image" />

     <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Text"
        android:layout_gravity="center" />
</FrameLayout>

Answer 4

If none of the above solutions did not work for you?. Then try below answer

Sample screen shot of the design.

For the above image please find the code below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.v7.widget.CardView
        android:id="@+id/my_card"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/bb"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:divider="@color/gray"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:weightSum="2">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/filter_tv"
                style="?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_baseline_filter_list"
                android:gravity="center|fill_horizontal"
                android:paddingLeft="60dp"
                android:text="Filter"
                android:textAllCaps="false"
                android:textStyle="normal" />

            <View
                android:layout_width="1dp"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_below="@+id/bb"
                android:background="@color/gray" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/sort_tv"
                style="?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                android:layout_gravity="center|center_horizontal"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_baseline_sort"
                android:drawablePadding="20dp"
                android:gravity="center|fill_horizontal"
                android:paddingLeft="40dp"
                android:text="Sort"
                android:textAllCaps="false" />

        </LinearLayout>
    </android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0.9dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/my_card"
        android:background="@color/gray" />
</RelativeLayout>

Answer 5

I had same problem and I solved it with small changes in Textview,

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:drawableLeft="@drawable/search_red"
    android:text="your text goes here"
    />

Answer 6

You can use android:gravity="center_vertical" to center the text vertically with the image. Or it can be centered inside the textView using android:gravity="center".

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:drawableLeft="@drawable/icon"
    android:text="Your text here" />