TextInputLayout label to achor above the left drawable of an EditText

Question

Is it possible to make the TextInputLayout label to show above the left drawable of an EditText perpendicularly when user focuses or types in the EditText.

Here is the xml of the EditText:

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
                android:id="@+id/completion_date_layout2"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
                android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:orientation="horizontal">

                <EditText
                    android:id="@+id/etTaskDate"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                    android:hint="@string/title_completion_date"
                    android:inputType="text"
                    android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_date"
                    android:paddingBottom="15dp"
                    android:drawablePadding="5dp"
                    android:textSize="@dimen/fields_text_size"/>
            </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Here is the desired output:

Here is the output that I am getting:

Answer 1

You can try this custom class: find here

and then just change in xml

com.mycompany.myapp.CustomTextInputLayout

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout;

import android.util.AttributeSet;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

public class CustomTextInputLayout extends TextInputLayout {
    private Object collapsingTextHelper;
    private Rect bounds;
    private Method recalculateMethod;

    public CustomTextInputLayout(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
    }

    public CustomTextInputLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, 0);
    }

    public CustomTextInputLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);

        init();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
        super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom);

        adjustBounds();
    }

    private void init() {
        try {
            Field cthField = TextInputLayout.class.getDeclaredField("mCollapsingTextHelper");
            cthField.setAccessible(true);
            collapsingTextHelper = cthField.get(this);

            Field boundsField = collapsingTextHelper.getClass().getDeclaredField("mCollapsedBounds");
            boundsField.setAccessible(true);
            bounds = (Rect) boundsField.get(collapsingTextHelper);

            recalculateMethod = collapsingTextHelper.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("recalculate");
        }
        catch (NoSuchFieldException | IllegalAccessException | NoSuchMethodException e) {
            collapsingTextHelper = null;
            bounds = null;
            recalculateMethod = null;
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private void adjustBounds() {
        if (collapsingTextHelper == null) {
            return;
        }

        try {
            bounds.left = getEditText().getLeft() + getEditText().getPaddingLeft();
            recalculateMethod.invoke(collapsingTextHelper);
        }
        catch (InvocationTargetException | IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Thanks to Java's member access model and Google's developers who left a small loophole it could be achieved with a simple subclassing which repeats a minimum of the original code:

package android.support.design.widget;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.util.AttributeSet;

public final class TextInputLayoutEx extends TextInputLayout {

    private final int mDefaultPadding = __4DP__;
    private final Rect mTmpRect = new Rect();

    public TextInputLayoutEx(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
        super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom);
        if (isHintEnabled() && mEditText != null) {
            final Rect rect = mTmpRect;
            ViewGroupUtils.getDescendantRect(this, mEditText, rect);
            mCollapsingTextHelper.setCollapsedBounds(
                rect.left + mDefaultPadding, getPaddingTop(),
                rect.right - mDefaultPadding, bottom - top - getPaddingBottom());
            mCollapsingTextHelper.recalculate();
        }
    }

}

Here we put a new class to the same package which opens an access to the mCollapsingTextHelper with a package-level visibility and then repeat part of the code from the original onLayout method which manages field name positioning. The __4DP__ value is 4dp value converted to pixels, I'm pretty sure everyone has an utility method for this.

In your xml layout just switch from the android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout to android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayoutEx so your layout looks like this:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayoutEx
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="Mobile">
    <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_phone_black_24dp"
        android:drawablePadding="4dp"/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayoutEx>

And the result is

At the moment it works for com.android.support:design:25.3.1

Answer 3

You can use animation and frame_layout to animate the left icon, try this link, may be helpful for you.

Answer 4

I have made a workaround regarding this issue. It may be a bit unreliable but it works on my end. Here is the code:

String spacer="        ";
EditText myEditText= (EditText)findViewById(R.id.myEditText);
myEditText.setText(spacer + "Today");
myEditText.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(R.drawable.ic_calendar, 0, 0, 0);

What I did here was placing a spacer before the text inside the editText, then add the drawable left programatically.

But make sure to remove those spaces before fetching the contents of the editText:

String title = myEditText.getText().toString().substring(8);

This means i cropped the 8 spaces before the word "Today".