Android: set just one padding of textview programmatically

use

    yourTextView.setPadding(0, 10, 0, 0);

Adjust only the parameters you need and set the other ones to zero.

If you need to preserve other existing paddings, use yourView.getPaddingLeft(), yourView.getPaddingTop() and so on.

I usually create a simple utility method just to not forget, or misplace the other paddings:

public static void setPaddingLeft(View v, int leftPaddingDp) {    int leftPaddingPx = dpToPx(leftPaddingDp);    v.setPadding(leftPaddingPx, v.getPaddingTop(), v.getPaddingRight(), v.getPaddingBottom());}

To be used later like this, supplying dp units, as if would in xmls:

Utils.setPaddingLeft(myExampleTextView, 10)

Kotlin Extension Solution

You can add an extension variable like this for each of the specific sides.

inline var View.topPadding: Int    get() = paddingTop    set(@Px value) = setPadding(paddingLeft, value, paddingRight, paddingBottom)// Then callmyView.topPadding = 10 // px

If you want to use dp instead of px, add something like this:

inline var View.rightPaddingDp: Float    get() = TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, paddingRight.toFloat(), resources.displayMetrics)     set(value) {        val rightPx = resources.displayMetrics.density * value        setPadding(paddingLeft, paddingTop, rightPx.toInt(), paddingBottom)    }myView.rightPaddingDp = 10 // dp

To handle horizontal or vertical, do something like this. Note that the getter result wouldn't make sense, so you can disable it.

inline var View.horizontalPadding: Int    get() = throw UnsupportedOperationException("No getter for property")    set(@Px value) = setPadding(value, paddingTop, value, paddingBottom)

To use start or end and correctly handle RTL languages, you'll need to add this:

inline val View.isLtr get() = SDK_INT < 17 || layoutDirection == View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_LTRinline var View.startPadding: Int    get() = if (isLtr) paddingLeft else paddingRight    set(@Px value) {        val left = if (isLtr) value else paddingLeft        val right = if (isLtr) paddingRight else value        setPadding(left, paddingTop, right, paddingBottom)    }

Bonus: Make an equivalent that takes a res. i.e. topPaddingRes