Android: How to put text underneath a Button?

Question

I have...

• PNG file for Background
• PNG file for Icon (drawableTop)
• Text I want to put underneath this Button

It's similar to a Menu Icon. How to do that? I only found following ways. Both of them arent very nice:

• Make two Buttons, one for Text one for the Picture
• The Background PNG File needs a transparent area at the bottom in the size of the text.

Answer 1

After some months of working with Android it's not that hard anymore. You can set any View (ImageView, TextView, LinearLayout, RelativeLayout...) clickable.

So in this case I would go with a Relative- or LinearLayout. They also can use the same style, so the position of the icons are always the same.

Answer 2

Set the text as the button text via the attribute android:text. Use the android:drawableTop attribute to set an icon that will appear above the text.