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

> This line is important ->> android:gravity="start|center_vertical


 <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_margin="@dimen/marginplus2"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="@string/like"
                android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
                android:drawablePadding="@dimen/marginplus1"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_like"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1.5"
                android:text="@string/comments"
                android:drawablePadding="@dimen/marginplus1"
                android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_comment"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
            <TextView
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="@string/share"
                android:drawablePadding="@dimen/marginplus1"
                android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_share"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

        </LinearLayout>

Answer 2

The simplest way to obtain that is:

<RelativeLayout
         android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:background="@drawable/head" >

         <ImageView
             android:id="@+id/cat"
             android:layout_width="wrap_content"
             android:layout_height="wrap_content"
             android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
             android:onClick="onClick"
             android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
             android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
             android:src="@drawable/btn_back_d" />

       <TextView
            android:id="@+id/TvTitle"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:text=""
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" 
            android:textColor="#000000" 
            android:textSize="20sp"/>

Where

• ImageView has the alignParentLeft setted true and
• TextView has the centerHorizontal setted true

Answer 3

Try flowing:

public class DrawableCenterTextView extends AppCompatTextView {

    public DrawableCenterTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs,
                                  int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

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

    public DrawableCenterTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        // We want the icon and/or text grouped together and centered as a group.
        // We need to accommodate any existing padding
        final float buttonContentWidth = getWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight();

        float textWidth = 0f;
        final Layout layout = getLayout();
        if (layout != null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < layout.getLineCount(); i++) {
                textWidth = Math.max(textWidth, layout.getLineRight(i));
            }
        }

        // Compute left drawable width, if any
        Drawable[] drawables = getCompoundDrawables();
        Drawable drawableLeft = drawables[0];

        int drawableWidth = (drawableLeft != null) ? drawableLeft.getIntrinsicWidth() : 0;

        // We only count the drawable padding if there is both an icon and text
        int drawablePadding = ((textWidth > 0) && (drawableLeft != null)) ? getCompoundDrawablePadding() : 0;

        // Adjust contents to center
        float bodyWidth = textWidth + drawableWidth + drawablePadding;
        int translate = (int) ((buttonContentWidth - bodyWidth));
        if (translate != 0)
            setPadding(translate, 0, translate, 0);
        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }
}