How to center icon and text in a android button with width set to "fill parent"

I want to have an Android Button with icon+text centered inside it. I'm using the drawableLeft attribute to set the image, this works well if the button has a width of "wrap_content" but I need to stretch to max width so I use width "fill_parent". This moves my icon straight to the left of the button and I want both icon and text centered inside the button.

I've try setting up the padding but this only allows to give a fixed value so it is not what I need. I need to have icon+text aligned in the center.

<Button 
    android:id="@+id/startTelemoteButton" 
    android:text="@string/start_telemote"
    android:drawableLeft="@drawable/start"
    android:paddingLeft="20dip"
    android:paddingRight="20dip"            
    android:width="fill_parent"
    android:heigh="wrap_content" />

Any suggestions on how I could achieve that?

Solution 1:

All the previous answers seem to be outdated

You can use the MaterialButton now which lets setting the icon gravity.

 <com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
        android:id="@+id/btnDownloadPdf"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="56dp"
        android:layout_margin="16dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:textAllCaps="true"
        app:backgroundTint="#fc0"
        app:icon="@drawable/ic_pdf"
        app:iconGravity="textStart"
        app:iconPadding="10dp"
        app:iconTint="#f00"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        tools:text="Download Pdf" />

For using the material components you will obviously need to:

Add a dependency implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.3.0-alpha01' (use latest version)

Make your theme extend Material Components theme

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light">
...
</style>

In case you cannot do so, extend it from the Material Bridge theme

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.Bridge">
...
</style>

Solution 2:

android:drawableLeft is always keeping android:paddingLeft as a distance from the left border. When the button is not set to android:width="wrap_content", it will always hang to the left!

With Android 4.0 (API level 14) you can use android:drawableStart attribute to place a drawable at the start of the text. The only backward compatible solution I've come up with is using an ImageSpan to create a Text+Image Spannable:

Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
Spannable buttonLabel = new SpannableString(" Button Text");
buttonLabel.setSpan(new ImageSpan(getApplicationContext(), R.drawable.icon,      
    ImageSpan.ALIGN_BOTTOM), 0, 1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
button.setText(buttonLabel);

In my case I needed to also adjust the android:gravity attribute of the Button to make it look centered:

<Button
  android:id="@+id/button"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:minHeight="32dp"
  android:minWidth="150dp"
  android:gravity="center_horizontal|top" />

Solution 3:

I know I am late in answering this question, but this helped me:

<FrameLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="35dp"
            android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:background="@color/fb" >

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/fbLogin"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_gravity="center"
                android:background="@null"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_facebook"
                android:gravity="center"
                android:minHeight="0dp"
                android:minWidth="0dp"
                android:text="FACEBOOK"
                android:textColor="@android:color/white" />
        </FrameLayout>

I found this solution from here: Android UI struggles: making a button with centered text and icon

Solution 4:

I used LinearLayout instead of Button. The OnClickListener, which I need to use works fine also for LinearLayout.

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/my_button"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/selector"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:clickable="true">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
        android:adjustViewBounds="true"
        android:scaleType="fitCenter"
        android:src="@drawable/icon" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="Text" />

</LinearLayout>