Android button with icon and text

I have some buttons like this in my app:

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/bSearch"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="16dp"
        android:text="Search"
        android:textSize="24sp" />

I'm trying to create a same button with text and a icon. android:drawableLeft doesn't work for me (Maybe it would, but i don't know how to set a max height to the icon).

So i created a LinearLayout with a ImageView and a TextView and made it act like a button:

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/bSearch2"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@android:drawable/btn_default"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:padding="16dp"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <ImageView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
            android:adjustViewBounds="true"
            android:maxHeight="30dp"
            android:maxWidth="30dp"
            android:scaleType="fitCenter"
            android:src="@drawable/search_icon" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/tvSearchCaption"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
            android:textSize="24sp"
            android:paddingRight="30dp"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="Search" />
    </LinearLayout>

My new button is exactly what i want (font size, icon and text placement). But it doesn't look like my default buttons:

So i tried, to change the background and the text color of my new Button:

Button Search = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bSearch);
LinearLayout bSearch2 = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.bSearch2);
bSearch2.setBackground(bSearch.getBackground());
TextView tvSearchCaption = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvSearchCaption);
tvSearchCaption.setTextColor(bSearch.getTextColors().getDefaultColor());

This gives a strange result, my old button, gets messed up:

When i change the order of these two buttons in the XML, so the "new button" goes first, it makes another strange result:

Now i noticed, that when i try to press the old button, the new one gets pressed.

Any ideas?

Solution 1:

Try this one.

<Button
    android:id="@+id/bSearch"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="16dp"
    android:text="Search"
    android:drawableLeft="@android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
    android:textSize="24sp"/>

Solution 2:

To add an image to left, right, top or bottom, you can use attributes like this:

android:drawableLeft
android:drawableRight
android:drawableTop
android:drawableBottom

The sample code is given above. You can also achieve this using relative layout.