Shifting edit text hints with android studio

Question

Does anyone know how to shift EditText hints a little bit on the right so my drawables on the left of the hint don't stand so sticky?

I tried with gravity attribute but it seems that that's not the good way to do it. I am thinking about to nest an imageView + an editText in a container for every input of my formula but it seems a bit dirty, isn't it?

Here you can see what I am talking about

Answer 1

You can use drawablePadding property:

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:drawableStart="@android:drawable/star_big_on"
    android:drawablePadding="10dp"
    android:hint="Username"/>

Result: