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Button background with image, text and colour in android

I want to create a button with background color, icon and text in android.
But I don't know how to add image. My XML is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="12dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TableLayout
android:id="#+id/tableLayout1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="5dp" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/button"
android:text="BOTON"
/>
</TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>
And my background:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item >
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:radius="6dip" />
<stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#5e7974" />
<gradient android:angle="-90" android:startColor="#345953" android:endColor="#689a92" />
</shape>
</item>
</selector>
I want to make some like this:
how add background image plus text in my background button? I tried put icon with property android:drawableleft but the size was to little for the size of button...

This isn't actually that hard. I just had to do this for my own project.
Android Buttons have a drawableLOCATION property in the XML.
To put an image at the top, as you want it, you'd use
android:drawableTop="#drawable/your_drawable_icon"
All four possible options are:
android:drawableLeft
android:drawableRight
android:drawableBottom
android:drawableTop
To adjust the spacing/padding of the image icon, you can use
android:drawablePadding="12dp"
You can read more about this here.
If that isn't accurate enough for you, you can use a RelativeLayout and put stuff in it to look right.
I had to do that for my current project. So instead of the button, I had this for my XML:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:id="#+id/applianceInfoLayout"
android:clickable="true"
android:background="#drawable/button_background" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:clickable="false"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/service_menu_icon_padding"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/service_menu_icon_padding"
android:id="#+id/infoTextView"
android:src="#drawable/ic_applianceinfo"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:clickable="false"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="Info"
android:textColor="#E6E7E8"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
android:textAllCaps="false"
android:textSize="22sp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/infoTextView"/>
</RelativeLayout>
Which gave me this:

Android: ImageView with text and own shape

I would like to create buttons with round corners, an image and a text but I have issues in centering text and icon.
This is what I tried so far:
<FrameLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<GridLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:columnCount="2"
android:rowCount="2"
android:layout_gravity="center"
**android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"**>
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="10dp"
android:id="#+id/btnResult"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:src="#drawable/result"
android:background="#layout/round_corners"
android:layout_row="0"
android:layout_column="0"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="#string/result"
android:id="#+id/tvAnalysis"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_row="0"
android:layout_column="0"
**android:layout_marginTop="180dp"**/>
</...
I need to specify the android:layout_marginLeft of the GridLayout to have it centered on my Nexus 5. On all other devices this is not feasable.
Any idea what I need to change to center the imageview/text combination?

For creating round corners for button ,
please create a xml lets called myshape.sml in drawable folder and paste below code
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<corners android:radius="5dp" />
<solid android:color="#color/header"/>
</shape>
If you want to add image to button and text then
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/abc_ab_share_pack_mtrl_alpha"
android:text="Test"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:background="#drawable/button_bg"
android:textSize="14sp />
Please note here android:drawableLeft is property in which you place icons to buttons

Can You Try TextView with DrawableLeft(or as per your need, Right,top,bottom) Instade of Button & Imageview ?

Selector image change with background on press

I have a background set in my activity_main.xml simply as that:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background4">
And I also have this imageview:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/textView5"
android:src="#drawable/contact" />
and my selector.xml looks like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/contact_pressed"/>
<item
android:state_focused="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/contact"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/contact"/>
</selector>
And nothing happens on image press

try to change this:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/textView5"
android:src="#drawable/contact" />
with this:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/textView5"
android:src="#drawable/selector" />
Obviously your selector.xml should be into drawable folder

The selector you mention above IS a background. What View are you trying to use? Maybe use an ImageView, you can set your selector as the "background" then use the image as the "src"? Alternatively, you could use seperate overlapping views in a FrameLayout or a RelativeLayout

Android background + text + icon for a button

I would like to have an image set to background a text on it and an icon on the left side of the text.
Very easy in iPhone, but can't figure out how to do it at Android, to be resizable that button and keep the icon + text position and distance properly.
iPhone:
Android I have this:
The xml code is:
<Button
android:id="#+id/btSettings"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#id/tvWhatever"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
android:background="#drawable/bt_general"
android:drawableTop="#drawable/settings_selected"
android:text="#string/settings"
android:textColor="#000000" />
Took the code from here.
If I use android:drawableLeft , than the icon will go to most left part.
If I start playing with semi hardcoded paddings, than I will have different look at diff devives: ( phone and table)
If I add the android:gravity="left|center_vertical" than it will look like this:
The text is variable: it will change, when the user change the language.
How to do it properly?
I don't want to downvote anybody's answer, but please read the question and don't suggest what I have tryed already. Also told the hardcoded fixes doesn't work well.
This is not a homework, but a commercial software part.
Here is a suggested code from answers:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/bt_general"
android:padding="20dip" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/xIcon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
android:src="#drawable/settings_selected" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/xSettingsTxt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/settings"
android:textColor="#000000" />
</RelativeLayout>
What do you think how it will look like the android:layout_marginLeft="10dip" on Galaxy s4? Here is a preview:
This is not, what I have asked. "dip" or "dp" or "px" shouldn't be used anywhere as distance from left, top, because phones has HPDI, smaller screen and Tablets has MDPI and wide resolutions. Simple doesn't work on mdpi, and xxhdpi.
Nizam answer is very close to a good solution:

Maybe you should use RelativeLayout with rounded corners, than put TextView and ImageView inside of it.

Try this:
Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
Spannable buttonLabel = new SpannableString(" Settings");
buttonLabel.setSpan(new ImageSpan(getApplicationContext(), R.drawable.settings_selected,
ImageSpan.ALIGN_BOTTOM), 0, 1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
button.setText(buttonLabel);

Try this:
Follow this : http://porcupineprogrammer.blogspot.in/2013/03/android-ui-struggles-making-button-with.html
<FrameLayout
style="?android:attr/buttonStyle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:drawableLeft="#android:drawable/ic_delete"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Button Challenge" />
</FrameLayout>

Here is how i do things :
LAYERS
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:drawable="#drawable/rounded_border"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/selector_button"/>
</layer-list>
SELECTOR
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#color/clr_grey_1" android:state_selected="true" android:state_window_focused="false"/>
<item android:drawable="#color/clr_grey_1" android:state_selected="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#color/clr_grey_1" android:state_pressed="true" android:state_selected="false"/>
<item android:drawable="#color/clr_main_green" android:state_selected="false"/>
</selector>
ROUNDED CORNER
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<solid android:color="#color/clr_grey_2" />
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#android:color/white" />
<corners
android:bottomLeftRadius="8dp"
android:bottomRightRadius="8dp"
android:topLeftRadius="8dp"
android:topRightRadius="8dp" />
<padding
android:bottom="0dp"
android:left="4dp"
android:right="0dp"
android:top="4dp" />
</shape>
Use this on relative layout, with an imageview and button inside it

Try below layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="100dip"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:background="#drawable/round_corners_drawable" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/xIcon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/xSettingsTxt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Settings"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
and drawable/round_corner_drawable is as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#310704"/>
<corners
android:bottomRightRadius="20sp"
android:bottomLeftRadius="20sp"
android:topLeftRadius="20sp"
android:topRightRadius="20sp"/>
<gradient
android:startColor="#99310704"
android:centerColor="#99310704"
android:endColor="#99310704"
android:angle="270" />
</shape>
Also, if you want to use your image as a background, give android:layout_height="wrap_content" and set it as a background for relative layout.
p.s. If you put different color values for startColor, centerColor and endColor, you will get that gradient effect for your background drawable. So change the color values accordingly.
EDIT:
Try below layout, i edited it to fit in different screen sizes with rounded corner drawable.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="20dip"
android:background="#drawable/dialog_round_corners" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/xIcon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/xSettingsTxt"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/xSettingsTxt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Settings"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button Text"
android:background="#drawable/round_background"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/icon"/>
save the xml code below as round_background.xml and put it on drawable folder. use this if you want, but you can also use image from the drawable folder.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<solid android:color="#f5f5f5" />
<corners android:radius="10px" />
<padding
android:bottom="0dp"
android:left="0dp"
android:right="0dp"
android:top="0dp" />
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#ccc" />
</shape>

I had achieved that with following code. May be used as an easier alternative to above solutions.
<Button android:id="#+id/btnUserProfile"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_user_profile"
android:background="#6C6C6C"
android:drawablePadding="8dp"
android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
android:text="#string/my_profile"
android:textStyle="bold|italic" />
the button view is marked in red(this is not a list item but a button with above code):

Found a class called CenteredIconButton that extends Button at this link. Worked like magic. How to have Image and Text Center within a Button . Thanks to #atomicode

If your button width: android:layout_width="wrap_content" then your code will be like this:
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/img name"
android:gravity="left|center"
android:text="Button" />
Else if your button width: android:layout_width="match_parent" then your code will be like this:
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/img name"
android:gravity="left|center"
android:text="Button"
android:paddingLeft="100dp"
/>
By the way android:paddingLeft="100dp", change 100 with your suitable value.

<Button
android:id="#+id/btSettings"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/back_button"
android:drawablePadding="5dp"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:text="Settings"
android:padding="20dp"
android:textColor="#000000" />
You can use paddingLeft and paddingRight to get button as the one in iphone

Try to use TextView,
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtSettings"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#id/tvWhatever"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="#string/settings"
android:textColor="#000000" />
In Java
txtView.setBackgroundResources(R.drawable.bt_general);
txtView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(Drawable left,Drawable top,Drawable right,Drawable bottom);
where Drawable image is,
Bitmap bitmap= BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.settings_selected);
BitmapDrawable drawable=new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);

I just implemented this kind of button (and it has been deployed in a large scale app), it is not really complicated :
content of large_button.xml :
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/large_button_background"
android:clickable="true"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
android:src="#drawable/some_icon" />
<com.my.app.widget.RobotoTextView
android:id="#+id/large_button_text"
style="#style/AppName_RobotoBold"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:focusable="false"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#color/text_main"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Then, to use it I just have to use the include tag :
<include
android:id="#+id/large_button"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/large_button_height"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/large_button_vertical_margin"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/large_button_horizontal_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/large_button_horizontal_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/large_button_vertical_margin"
layout="#layout/large_button" />
large_button_background is a selector that points to the different drawables to use for each button state
I used a LinearLayout, it allows to simply center both text & icons in the button. It should also be doable with a GridLayout. If you want to center just on the text (I don't think it looks great though but that's your choice), use a RelativeLayout.

You can use android:paddingLeft, android:paddingRight and layout_width at a fixed width to solve the issue.
<Button
android:id="#+id/btSettings"
android:layout_width="148dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="32dp"
android:paddingRight="32dp"
android:background="#drawable/bt_general"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/settings_selected"
android:text="#string/settings"
android:textColor="#000000"/>

Check this link I found useful. http://porcupineprogrammer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/android-ui-struggles-making-button-with.html

Properly Add Background Image in a selected item(ListView)

When I press a specific item on the listview, it should be highlighted by displaying a background image on it. The problem is the image is not properly displayed. I am using android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator to display the image on background.
Original Image:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/relLayout"
android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:padding="5dip" >
<!-- ListRow Left side Thumbnail image -->
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/thumbnail"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginRight="5dip"
android:padding="3dip" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/list_image"
android:contentDescription="#string/app_name"
android:layout_width="60dip"
android:layout_height="60dip"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- Rightend Arrow -->
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:contentDescription="#string/app_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:src="#drawable/abs__ic_go" />
<!-- City tvCity -->
<TextView
android:id="#+id/pid"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="75dip"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:paddingBottom ="10dip"
android:text="Main Groups"
android:textColor="#f5f5f5"
android:textSize="15dip"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:typeface="sans" />
<!-- Weather Information-->
<TextView
android:id="#+id/name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/pid"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/pid"
android:paddingTop="5dip"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="Main"
android:textColor="#f5f5f5"
android:textSize="15dip" />
</RelativeLayout>
Below is the xml responsible for putting the background:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_activated="true" android:drawable="#drawable/listview_back" />
<item android:state_pressed="true"
android:state_enabled="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/listview_back" />
<item android:state_focused="false"
android:state_pressed="false"
android:state_selected="false"
android:state_checked="false"
android:state_enabled="true"
android:state_checkable="false"
android:drawable="#android:color/transparent"/>
</selector>
The result(been experimenting the sizes but still the same output):

1- The android:background attribute use no scaling when displays an image, so the image will not fit the parent size.
2- In your main xml file (the one contains the listView itself) you might put the listView with a fixed width, so not the whole area of the item will be displayed might be a part of it hidden.
** My advice to use an ImageView inside the relativeLayout of the item which fits the item and in this ImageView set the image in android:src not in android:background and use the scaleType="fitXY", by this way the ImageView will be responsible for resizing your Image to fit the ImageView which already fits your Relative Layout.