[FIXED] Android: Set margin to left side of radiobutton drawable

Issue

I want to set a margin / padding between my radiobutton drawable and the left side of it, e.g: Setting a margin of 8dp between my radiobutton drawable and the left side of the screen. I know how to set a margin between the radiobutton itself, but not how to do it with the radiobutton drawable. I also know how to set a margin right side of the radiobutton drawable with paddngStart="YOUR_PADDING".

Is this possible?

Here a picture of what I mean:

Currently

What I want

EDIT

The aboven written answer does work. For those wo want to set the value inside the layout and not programmatically, I have written a binding adapter:

@BindingAdapter("setDrawableLeftPadding")
fun setDrawableLeftPadding(view: CustomRadioButton, padding: Float) {
    view.setStartPaddingDp(padding)
}

You can then use it inside your CustomRadioButton layout with app:setDrawableLeftPadding="@{8f}"

Solution

I you want to achieve the exact same on what your second picture shows, you can write a custom RadioButton that handle this padding, the custom view code can be like this (in Kotlin):

import android.content.Context
import android.graphics.Canvas
import android.util.AttributeSet
import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatRadioButton

class CustomRadioButton : AppCompatRadioButton {

    // the value of your padding (in pixels) from the start of the radio button
    var startPadding: Int = 0
        get
        set(value) {
            field = value
            requestLayout()
        }

    constructor(context: Context?) : super(context)
    constructor(context: Context?, attrs: AttributeSet?) : super(context, attrs)
    constructor(context: Context?, attrs: AttributeSet?, defStyleAttr: Int) : super(
        context,
        attrs,
        defStyleAttr
    )


    fun setStartPaddingDp(paddingDp: Float) {
        startPaddingPx = (paddingDp * context.resources.displayMetrics.density).toInt()
    }


    override fun onDraw(canvas: Canvas?) {
        // todo: handle Right-To-Left layouts
        canvas?.translate(startPadding.toFloat(), 0f)

        super.onDraw(canvas)
    }

    override fun onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec: Int, heightMeasureSpec: Int) {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec)

        setMeasuredDimension(measuredWidth + startPadding, measuredHeight)
    }
}

You can set the padding value by setting the value of the field startPadding, for example:

yourCustomRadioButton.startPadding = 100 // this value is in pixels

// or

yourCustomRadioButton.setStartPaddingDp(100) // this value is in DP

Answered By - mhdwajeeh.95
Answer Checked By - Dawn Plyler (JavaFixing Volunteer)