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How to design a floated button like in the attached image

I am trying to create an app and I have a design already as an image, but I can not clone the exact shape of the button which is above the tabs
I expect the same design in this image: below
Note:
0 and 0.00EGP should be variables

Create a XML file bottom_corner.xml for background
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#0091fa"/>
<stroke android:width="1dp"
android:color="#0091fa" />
<corners android:radius="10dp"/>
<padding android:left="0dp"
android:top="0dp"
android:right="0dp"
android:bottom="0dp" />
</shape>
Now create layout floated_button.xml and use this background here in the layout:
<RelativeLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
android:background="#drawable/bottom_corner"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_total_value"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="0"
android:textSize="18dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:textColor="#fff"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_egp_value"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="0.00 EGP"
android:textSize="22dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingRight="15dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:textColor="#fff"/>
<View
android:layout_width="1dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#fff"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/tv_total_value"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Charge"
android:textSize="22dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingRight="15dp"
android:paddingLeft="15dp"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/tv_total_value"
android:textColor="#fff"/>
</RelativeLayout>

For your specific problem, you can move forward like this:
First of all, you have to create a drawable file of round background.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#000000" />
<corners android:radius="15dp" />
</shape>
Then, you can add the tag of image and place it, on the corner of the image where you want to place it. Then use drawable as background then adjust the TextView on it.
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ivLauncher"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:src="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ivBg"
android:layout_width="15dp"
android:layout_height="15dp"
android:src="#drawable/round_text_bg"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/ivLauncher"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="#id/ivLauncher"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="#id/ivLauncher"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="#id/ivLauncher"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="1"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:textSize="10dp"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#id/ivBg"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="#id/ivBg"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="#id/ivBg"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="#id/ivBg"/>
Here is the result:
Flotted Button design on image corner

How to retain button state after being pressed?

When I click one of the buttons (forgot your code? or tick box), they display solid red colour and lead to a different activity. When I return to the previous activity, the button state has changed to default and is displaying orange colour. How do I retain the button's original state after being pressed?
Screenshots :
button_state.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" >
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:radius="3dip" />
<stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#000000" />
<gradient android:angle="-90" android:startColor="#FF0D00" android:endColor="#FF0D00" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:state_focused="true">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<corners android:radius="3dip" />
<stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#000000" />
<solid android:color="#FF0D00"/>
</shape>
</item>
<item >
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:radius="3dip" />
<stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#000000" />
<gradient android:angle="-90" android:startColor="#D8D8D8" android:endColor="#848484" />
</shape>
</item>
</selector>
Layout file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".SignInScreen"
android:background="#619ec9"
>
<TextView
android:layout_width="374dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="Hello! Welcome to MLAD!"
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:textSize="30dp"
android:layout_above="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:layout_x="-28dp"
android:layout_y="117dp"
android:typeface="serif"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="Please enter your 4 digit code:"
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_above="#+id/codeEntry"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:textSize="27dp"
android:layout_x="5dp"
android:layout_y="182dp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:typeface="serif" />
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="75dp"
android:layout_height="75dp"
android:id="#+id/tick"
android:src="#drawable/black_tick"
android:background="#drawable/button_state"
android:layout_x="120dp"
android:layout_y="296dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/codeEntry"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="29dp" />
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="82dp"
android:layout_height="82dp"
android:id="#+id/help"
android:src="#drawable/question"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:background="#drawable/button_state"
android:layout_x="232dp"
android:layout_y="4dp" />
<EditText
android:maxLength="4"
android:layout_width="283dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="number"
android:ems="15"
android:id="#+id/codeEntry"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_alignEnd="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_x="19dp"
android:layout_y="246dp"
android:background="#drawable/shape"
android:textSize="27sp"
android:hint="Enter Your Code Here"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
/>
<Button
android:layout_width="119dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Create a new account"
android:id="#+id/create_acc"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/tick"
android:layout_toStartOf="#+id/tick"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:background="#drawable/button_state"
android:layout_x="3dp"
android:layout_y="410dp"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/recover_code" />
<Button
android:onClick="goSecActivity"
android:layout_width="105dp"
android:layout_height="91dp"
android:text="Forgot your code?"
android:id="#+id/recover_code"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_toEndOf="#+id/tick"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:background="#drawable/button_state"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/tick"
android:layout_x="222dp"
android:layout_y="376dp"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/imageView"
android:src="#mipmap/mlad_logo"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:layout_toStartOf="#+id/help"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/textView2"
android:alpha="0.1" />
</RelativeLayout>

If you mean for the lifetime of the application even after its destroyed then used a sharedPreference to remember the state. Set it before you leave to the other activity.
SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences();
prefs.edit().putBoolean("red", true).apply();
that gets called right before you go to the new activity.
then have a if statement in your onResume code to do this:
SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences();
boolean shouldBeRed=prefs.getBoolean("red",false)
if(shouldBeRed){
//change button to red here
}
but if you just need it while the user is in the app(so per session), just set a flag in onStop() and then in onResume() change the buttons color accordingly.
UPDATE: NOW i understand your issue the buttons state was not changing back to grey which is the normal state. Try removing this onelines from the button in your xml layout:
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
So make your button layout now look like this:
<Button
android:onClick="goSecActivity"
android:layout_width="105dp"
android:layout_height="91dp"
android:text="Forgot your code?"
android:id="#+id/recover_code"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_toEndOf="#+id/tick"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:background="#drawable/button_state"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/tick"
android:layout_x="222dp"
android:layout_y="376dp"
android:focusable="true"
/>
whats occurring is every time you return to the page since your focusable in touch mode its making the button focusable which is calling the focus state of your button_state.xml
from the docs:
focusableInTouchMode: Boolean that controls whether a view can take focus while in touch mode. If this is true for a view, that view can gain focus when clicked on, and can keep focus if another view is clicked on that doesn't have this attribute set to true.

ImageView doesn't show inside LinearLayout with layer-list as background

I have the following layer-list
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#FF000000"/>
<stroke android:width="0dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
<corners android:topLeftRadius="10dp" android:topRightRadius="10dp"/>
<padding android:left="0dp" android:top="0dp" android:right="0dp" android:bottom="0dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
This resource is a black background with some rounded border (Top left and top Right). I want put it in LinearLayout as background property and inside LinearLayour I want put a white Textview and a ImageView. I have the following code
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/ll"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:background="#drawable/profile_background_head_item">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/origin"
android:gravity="center"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_config"/>
</LinearLayout>
The problem is that ImageView doesn't show, I think that it is due that my layer-list code, but I don't know how to solve it.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Your TextView's width is match_parent, and in a horizontal LinearLayout, that would push the ImageView offscreen.
I suggest using weights, try:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/ll"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:background="#drawable/profile_background_head_item">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/origin"
android:gravity="center"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_config"/>
</LinearLayout>
This should have the TextView take up the rest of the horizontal space the ImageView leaves.

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 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