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androidimagetextbutton
znq
znq

Reputation: 44973

Android: combining text & image on a Button or ImageButton

I'm trying to have an image (as the background) on a button and add dynamically, depending on what's happening during run-time, some text above/over the image.

If I use ImageButton I don't even have the possibility to add text. If I use Button I can add text but only define an image with android:drawableBottom and similar XML attributes as defined here.

However these attributes only combine text & image in x- and y-dimensions, meaning I can draw an image around my text, but not below/under my text (with the z-axis defined as coming out of the display).

Any suggestions on how to do this? One idea would be to either extend Button or ImageButton and override the draw()-method. But with my current level of knowledge I don't really know how to do this (2D rendering). Maybe someone with more experience knows a solution or at least some pointers to start?

Upvotes: 580

Views: 630476

Answers (19)

Cristan
Cristan

Reputation: 14135

MaterialButton has support for setting an icon and aligning it to the text:

<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="My button"
        app:icon="@drawable/your_icon"
        app:iconGravity="textStart"
        />

app:iconGravity can also be to start / end if you want to align the icon to the button instead of the text inside it.

Since version 1.5.0-beta01, app:iconGravity can also be top / textTop (commit)

MaterialButton with iconGravity top

Upvotes: 12

Emmanuel Osimosu
Emmanuel Osimosu

Reputation: 6004

To combine Button and drawableTop and still get the click response, you can use button style @style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless to make it transparent.

enter image description here

<Button
    android:id="@+id/settings"
    style="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:drawableTop="@drawable/ic_baseline_settings_24"
    android:drawableTint="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:text="@string/settings"
    android:textColor="?attr/colorPrimary" />

Upvotes: 3

Fattie
Fattie

Reputation: 12373

Make a fake button.

It's really the only way

  <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/fake_button"

        android:layout_width=" .. "
        android:layout_height=" .. "

        android:background="@android:color/transparent"

        android:clickable="true"
        android:onClick="tappedNext">

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/fake_image"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"

            android:src="@drawable/your_amazing_drawable" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/fake_text"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:gravity="center"

            android:text="Next"
            android:fontFamily="@font/ .. "
            android:textColor="@color/ .. "
            android:textSize=" .. " />
    </FrameLayout>

Upvotes: 0

kfc
kfc

Reputation: 617

<Button android:id="@+id/myButton" 
    android:layout_width="150dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Image Button"
    android:drawableTop="@drawable/myimage"         
    />

Or you can programmatically:

Drawable drawable = getResources.getDrawable(R.drawable.myimage);
drawable.setBounds(0, 0, 60, 60);
myButton.setCompoundDrawables(null, drawable, null, null);//to the Top of the Button

Upvotes: 1

OneWorld
OneWorld

Reputation: 17669

For users who just want to put Background, Icon-Image and Text in one Button from different files: Set on a Button background, drawableTop/Bottom/Rigth/Left and padding attributes.

<Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@drawable/home_btn_test"
        android:drawableTop="@drawable/home_icon_test"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:id="@+id/ButtonTest"
        android:paddingTop="32sp"
        android:drawablePadding="-15sp"
        android:text="this is text"></Button>

For more sophisticated arrangement you also can use RelativeLayout (or any other layout) and make it clickable.

Tutorial: Great tutorial that covers both cases: http://izvornikod.com/Blog/tabid/82/EntryId/8/Creating-Android-button-with-image-and-text-using-relative-layout.aspx

Upvotes: 636

Khemraj Sharma
Khemraj Sharma

Reputation: 59004

Important Update

Don't use normal android:drawableLeft etc... with vector drawables, else it will crash in lower API versions. (I have faced it in live app)

For vector drawable

If you are using vector drawable, then you must

  • Have you migrated to AndroidX? if not you must migrate to AndroidX first. It is very simple, see what is androidx, and how to migrate?

  • It was released in version 1.1.0-alpha01, so appcompat version should be at least 1.1.0-alpha01. Current latest version is 1.1.0-alpha02, use latest versions for better reliability, see release notes - link.

    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0-alpha02'

  • Use AppCompatTextView/AppCompatButton/AppCompatEditText

  • Use app:drawableLeftCompat, app:drawableTopCompat, app:drawableRightCompat, app:drawableBottomCompat, app:drawableStartCompat and app:drawableEndCompat

For regular drawable

If you don't need vector drawable, then you can

  • use android:drawableLeft, android:drawableRight, android:drawableBottom, android:drawableTop
  • You can use either regular TextView, Button & EditText or AppCompat classes.

You can achieve Output like below -

output

Upvotes: 14

m_vitaly
m_vitaly

Reputation: 11952

You can call setBackground() on a Button to set the background of the button.

Any text will appear above the background.

If you are looking for something similar in xml there is: android:background attribute which works the same way.

Upvotes: 211

Jayesh Prajapati
Jayesh Prajapati

Reputation: 19

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/iv"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:scaleType="centerCrop"
        android:src="@drawable/temp"
        />

Upvotes: -5

Jevgenij Kononov
Jevgenij Kononov

Reputation: 1237

Probably my solution will suit for a lot of users, I hope so.

What I am suggesting it is making TextView with your style. It works for me perfectly, and has got all features, like a button.

First of all lets make button style, which you can use everywhere...I am creating button_with_hover.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="#8dbab3" />
            <gradient android:angle="-90" android:startColor="#48608F" android:endColor="#48608F"  />
        </shape>

        <!--#284682;-->
        <!--border-color: #223b6f;-->
    </item>
    <item android:state_focused="true">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle"  >
            <corners android:radius="3dip" />
            <stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#284682" />
            <solid android:color="#284682"/>
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item >
        <shape android:shape="rectangle"  >
            <corners android:radius="3dip" />
            <stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="@color/ControlColors" />
            <gradient android:angle="-90" android:startColor="@color/ControlColors" android:endColor="@color/ControlColors" />
        </shape>
    </item>

</selector>

Secondly, Lets create a textview button. 

    <TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginBottom="20dip"
    android:layout_gravity="right|bottom"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:padding="12dip"
    android:background="@drawable/button_with_hover"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:drawableLeft="@android:drawable/btn_star_big_off"
    android:textColor="#ffffffff"
    android:text="Golden Gate" />

And this is a result. Then style your custom button with any colors or any other properties and margins. Good luck

enter image description here

Upvotes: 7

Kieran
Kieran

Reputation: 860

Just use a LinearLayout and pretend it's a Button - setting background and clickable is the key:

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/button"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@android:drawable/btn_default"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/img"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
        android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
        android:src="@drawable/image" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:text="Do stuff" />
</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 64

schlingel
schlingel

Reputation: 8575

There's a much better solution for this problem.

Just take a normal Button and use the drawableLeft and the gravity attributes.

<Button
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:drawableLeft="@drawable/my_btn_icon"
  android:gravity="left|center_vertical" />

This way you get a button which displays a icon in the left side of the button and the text at the right site of the icon vertical centered.

Upvotes: 360

jigar
jigar

Reputation: 1591

You can use this:

  <Button
                    android:id="@+id/reset_all"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
                    android:layout_weight="1"
                    android:background="@drawable/btn_med"
                    android:text="Reset all"
                    android:textColor="#ffffff" />

                <Button
                    android:id="@+id/undo"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
                    android:layout_weight="1"
                    android:background="@drawable/btn_med"
                    android:text="Undo"
                    android:textColor="#ffffff" />

in that i have put an image as background and also added text..!

Upvotes: 0

Kalai.G
Kalai.G

Reputation: 1610

You can use drawableTop (also drawableLeft, etc) for the image and set text below the image by adding the gravity left|center_vertical

<Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_video"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:background="@null"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/videos"
            android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
            android:onClick="onClickFragment"
            android:text="Videos"
            android:textColor="@color/white" />

Upvotes: 12

Dhina k
Dhina k

Reputation: 1489

enter image description here

     <Button
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/home_button"
            android:drawableLeft="@android:drawable/ic_menu_edit"
            android:drawablePadding="6dp"
            android:gravity="left|center"
            android:height="60dp"
            android:padding="6dp"
            android:text="AndroidDhina"
            android:textColor="#000"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

Upvotes: 68

Oscar Salguero
Oscar Salguero

Reputation: 10375

I took a different approach from the ones stated here, and it is working really well, so I wanted to share it.

I'm using a Style to create a custom button with image at the left and text at the center-right. Just follow the 4 "easy steps" below:

I. Create your 9 patches using at least 3 different PNG files and the tool you have at: /YOUR_OWN_PATH/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools/./draw9patch. After this you should have:

button_normal.9.png, button_focused.9.png and button_pressed.9.png

Then download or create a 24x24 PNG icon.

ic_your_icon.png

Save all in the drawable/ folder on your Android project.

II. Create a XML file called button_selector.xml in your project under the drawable/ folder. The states should be like this:

<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/button_pressed" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/button_focused" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/button_normal" />

III. Go to the values/ folder and open or create the styles.xml file and create the following XML code:

<style name="ButtonNormalText" parent="@android:style/Widget.Button">
    <item name="android:textColor" >@color/black</item>
    <item name="android:textSize" >12dip</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle" >bold</item>
    <item name="android:height" >44dip</item>
    <item name="android:background" >@drawable/button_selector</item>
    <item name="android:focusable" >true</item>
    <item name="android:clickable" >true</item>
</style>

<style name="ButtonNormalTextWithIcon" parent="ButtonNormalText">
    <item name="android:drawableLeft" >@drawable/ic_your_icon</item>
</style>

ButtonNormalTextWithIcon is a "child style" because it is extending ButtonNormalText (the "parent style").

Note that changing the drawableLeft in the ButtonNormalTextWithIcon style, to drawableRight, drawableTop or drawableBottom you can place the icon in other position with respect to the text.

IV. Go to the layout/ folder where you have your XML for the UI and go to the Button where you want to apply the style and make it look like this:

<Button android:id="@+id/buttonSubmit" 
android:text="@string/button_submit" 
android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
style="@style/ButtonNormalTextWithIcon" ></Button>

And... voilà! You got your button with an image at the left side.

For me, this is the better way to do it! because doing it this way you can manage the text size of the button separately from the icon you want to display and use the same background drawable for several buttons with different icons respecting the Android UI Guidelines using styles.

You can also create a theme for your App and add the "parent style" to it so all the buttons look the same, and apply the "child style" with the icon only where you need it.

Upvotes: 22

eyal
eyal

Reputation: 2409

This code works for me perfectly 

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

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/choose_photo"/>

     <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
        android:text="@string/choose_photos_tv"/>

</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 6

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 6405

<Button
     android:id="@+id/groups_button_bg"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:text="Groups"
     android:drawableTop="@drawable/[image]" />


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

http://www.mokasocial.com/2010/04/create-a-button-with-an-image-and-text-android/

Upvotes: 7

CMA
CMA

Reputation: 2818

just replace 

android:background="@drawable/icon"

with

android:background="@android:color/transparent"
android:drawableTop="@drawable/[your background image here]"

izz a pretty good trick.. ;)

Upvotes: 46

Salman Khursheed Khaleeqi
Salman Khursheed Khaleeqi

Reputation: 308

 <Button android:id="@+id/imeageTextBtn" 
        android:layout_width="240dip"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Side Icon With Text Button"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/left_side_icon"         
        />

Upvotes: 13

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