Button with image and text

Published: August 6, 2019

You can easily create a button with both a drawable and text with the view Button. No need to create an ImageButton and a TextView, align them together and add a click listener twice.

xml

<Button
android:text="Start"
android:drawableTop="@drawable/start_wrap"
android:drawableTint="@android:color/white"
android:drawablePadding="10dp"
android:background="@android:color/transparent"
android:textColor="@android:color/white"/>

Android buttons with image and text — The wanted outcome

You can also place the image under, to the left or right.

The reason I have wrapped my drawable in another drawable is to control the size just for this button. Like this:

xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
  <item
  android:drawable="@drawable/baseline_camera_enhance_24"
  android:width="40dp"
  android:height="40dp"
  />
</layer-list >