Android: combining text & image on a Button or ImageButton

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

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.

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.