DrawableLeft programmatically on Xamarin.Android?

Issue

I'm working on a Xamarin Android app and I'm setting the following style to a button through my styles.xml

<style name="button_style_1" parent="@style/button_style_default">
  <item name="android:drawableLeft">@drawable/my_icon</item>
  <item name="android:drawablePadding">28dp</item>
  <item name="android:padding">5dp</item>
</style>

Everything works fine but now I need to set the above properties to my button programmatically. What's the best way to do it in Xamarin.Android?

Solution

For drawableLeft

 var draw = ContextCompat.Drawable(this, Resource.Drawable.your_drawable)
 button.SetCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(draw, null, null, null);

Note : this is context of the Activity.

For drawablePadding use CompoundDrawablePadding.

For padding use SetPadding.

Important Note :

CompoundDrawablePadding with a negative padding and SetPadding with a positive padding to counter creates a centered effect.

just check it out and tell me.

Answered By - Harshad Pansuriya