How to center the text inside a Button regardless of drawableLeft?

Question

I want the text centered in the Button. But whenever I add android:drawableLeft xml attribute to the Button, it offsets the text. How can I fix that?

The only way I managed to fix it is by setting a negative number in android:drawablePadding:

But I'm looking for a cleaner solution to achieve it.

Answer 1

So I ended up going with the lesser of the evils, and that's placing the drawable and the text inside RelativeLayout:

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    style="@style/Button.ButtonGray"
    android:id="@+id/share_button">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/btn_share"/>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        style="@style/TextNormalWeight"
        android:text="@string/post_share"/>

</RelativeLayout>

The RelativeLayout then receives click events and acts and looks like a button.