How to add image in a TextView text?

Try this ..

    txtview.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(
                    R.drawable.image, 0, 0, 0);

Also see this.. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html

Try this in xml file

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtStatus"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/image"
        android:drawablePadding="5dp"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="@string/name"/>

com/xyz/customandroid/ TextViewWithImages .java:

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import android.content.Context;
import android.text.Spannable;
import android.text.style.ImageSpan;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class TextViewWithImages extends TextView {

    public TextViewWithImages(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }
    public TextViewWithImages(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }
    public TextViewWithImages(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }
    @Override
    public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
        Spannable s = getTextWithImages(getContext(), text);
        super.setText(s, BufferType.SPANNABLE);
    }

    private static final Spannable.Factory spannableFactory = Spannable.Factory.getInstance();

    private static boolean addImages(Context context, Spannable spannable) {
        Pattern refImg = Pattern.compile("\\Q[img src=\\E([a-zA-Z0-9_]+?)\\Q/]\\E");
        boolean hasChanges = false;

        Matcher matcher = refImg.matcher(spannable);
    while (matcher.find()) {
        boolean set = true;
        for (ImageSpan span : spannable.getSpans(matcher.start(), matcher.end(), ImageSpan.class)) {
            if (spannable.getSpanStart(span) >= matcher.start()
             && spannable.getSpanEnd(span) <= matcher.end()
               ) {
                spannable.removeSpan(span);
            } else {
                set = false;
                break;
            }
        }
        String resname = spannable.subSequence(matcher.start(1), matcher.end(1)).toString().trim();
        int id = context.getResources().getIdentifier(resname, "drawable", context.getPackageName());
        if (set) {
            hasChanges = true;
            spannable.setSpan(  new ImageSpan(context, id),
                                matcher.start(),
                                matcher.end(),
                                Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE
                             );
        }
    }

        return hasChanges;
    }
    private static Spannable getTextWithImages(Context context, CharSequence text) {
        Spannable spannable = spannableFactory.newSpannable(text);
        addImages(context, spannable);
        return spannable;
    }
}

Use:

in res/layout/mylayout.xml:

            <com.xyz.customandroid.TextViewWithImages
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textColor="#FFFFFF00"
                android:text="@string/can_try_again"
                android:textSize="12dip"
                style=...
                />

Note that if you place TextViewWithImages.java in some location other than com/xyz/customandroid/, you also must change the package name, com.xyz.customandroid above.

in res/values/strings.xml:

<string name="can_try_again">Press [img src=ok16/] to accept or [img src=retry16/] to retry</string>

where ok16.png and retry16.png are icons in the res/drawable/ folder

I tried many different solutions and this for me was the best:

SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder(" Hello world!");
ssb.setSpan(new ImageSpan(context, R.drawable.image), 0, 1, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
tv_text.setText(ssb, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

This code uses a minimum of memory.

fun TextView.addImage(atText: String, @DrawableRes imgSrc: Int, imgWidth: Int, imgHeight: Int) {
    val ssb = SpannableStringBuilder(this.text)

    val drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(this.context, imgSrc) ?: return
    drawable.mutate()
    drawable.setBounds(0, 0,
            imgWidth,
            imgHeight)
    val start = text.indexOf(atText)
    ssb.setSpan(VerticalImageSpan(drawable), start, start + atText.length, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE)
    this.setText(ssb, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE)
}

VerticalImageSpan class from great answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/38788432/5381331

Using

val textView = findViewById<TextView>(R.id.textview)
textView.setText("Send an [email-icon] to [email protected].")
textView.addImage("[email-icon]", R.drawable.ic_email,
        resources.getDimensionPixelOffset(R.dimen.dp_30),
        resources.getDimensionPixelOffset(R.dimen.dp_30))

Result

Note
Why VerticalImageSpan class?
ImageSpan.ALIGN_CENTER attribute requires API 29.
Also, after the test, I see that ImageSpan.ALIGN_CENTER only work if the image smaller than the text, if the image bigger than the text then only image is in center, text not center, it align on bottom of image