How do I use a compound drawable instead of a LinearLayout that contains an ImageView and a TextView

Question

Ran the new Lint tool against my code   It came up with a lot of good suggestions  but this one I cannot understand   This tag and its children can be replaced by one  and a compound drawable Issue  Checks whether the current node can be replaced by a TextView using compound drawables  A LinearLayout which contains an ImageView and a TextView can be more efficiently handled as a compound drawable  And here is my layout  lt LinearLayout android layout width  quot wrap content quot  android layout height  quot wrap content quot  android orientation  quot horizontal quot  android layout centerInParent  quot true quot  gt    lt ImageView      android id  quot   id upImage quot      android layout width  quot 20dp quot      android layout height  quot 20dp quot      android layout gravity  quot center vertical quot      android scaleType  quot centerInside quot      android src  quot  drawable up count big quot  gt   lt  ImageView gt    lt TextView     android id  quot   id LikeCount quot      android layout width  quot wrap content quot      android layout height  quot wrap content quot      android layout marginLeft  quot 2dp quot      android layout marginBottom  quot 1dp quot      android textColor  quot  color gray quot      android textSize  quot 16sp quot      android layout gravity  quot center vertical quot  gt   lt  TextView gt   lt  LinearLayout gt   Can someone provide a concrete example of how to make a compound drawable in this case

User · Accepted Answer

TextView comes with 4 compound drawables  one for each of left  top  right and bottom   In your case  you do not need the LinearLayout and ImageView at all  Just add android drawableLeft   drawable up count big  to your TextView   See TextView setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds for more info

User · Answer

You can use general compound drawable implementation  but if you need to define a size of drawable use this library   https   github com a-tolstykh textview-rich-drawable  Here is a small example of usage    lt com tolstykh textviewrichdrawable TextViewRichDrawable         android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android text  Some text          app compoundDrawableHeight  24dp          app compoundDrawableWidth  24dp    gt

User · Answer

if for some reason you need to add via code  you can use this   mTextView setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds left  top  right  bottom     where left  top  right bottom are Drawables

User · Answer

To add to this - it seems important to define the width  amp  height of the drawable as per this post    Drawable shape not showing when used in combination with android drawableBottom attribute     his code works

[android] How do I use a compound drawable instead of a LinearLayout that contains an ImageView and a TextView

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