Is it possible to use VectorDrawable in Buttons and TextViews using android:DrawableRight?

it possible to use drawableRight etc for SVG assets ?

Yes

AppCompatTextView now supports app:drawableLeftCompat, app:drawableTopCompat, app:drawableRightCompat, app:drawableBottomCompat, app:drawableStartCompat and app:drawableEndCompat compound drawables, supporting backported drawable types such as VectorDrawableCompat.

Include this in your gradle file

implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0-alpha01'

In your text view you can use

app:drawableLeftCompat
app:drawableStartCompat

If you have problems while using app:drawableLeftCompat, app:drawableStartCompat in buttons you will need to update your library to

androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0-alpha01

they had a bug on

androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0-alpha01

you can see the docs


Or if you don't want to update yet, then:

Because it seems Google not going to do anything about this issue any time soon, I had to came up with a more solid reusable solution for all of my apps:

  1. First add custom TextView attributes in attrs.xml file of your app "res/values/attrs.xml" :

    <resources>
        <declare-styleable name="CustomTextView">
            <attr name="drawableStartCompat" format="reference"/>
            <attr name="drawableEndCompat" format="reference"/>
            <attr name="drawableTopCompat" format="reference"/>
            <attr name="drawableBottomCompat" format="reference"/>
        </declare-styleable>
    </resources>
    
  2. Then create custom TextView class like this:

    import android.content.Context;
    import android.content.res.TypedArray;
    import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
    import android.os.Build;
    import android.support.v7.content.res.AppCompatResources;
    import android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView;
    import android.util.AttributeSet;
    
    public class CustomTextView extends AppCompatTextView {
        public CustomTextView(Context context) {
            super(context);
        }    
        public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
            super(context, attrs);
            initAttrs(context, attrs);
        }
        public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
            super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
            initAttrs(context, attrs);
        }
    
        void initAttrs(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
            if (attrs != null) {
                TypedArray attributeArray = context.obtainStyledAttributes(
                        attrs,
                        R.styleable.CustomTextView);
    
                Drawable drawableStart = null;
                Drawable drawableEnd = null;
                Drawable drawableBottom = null;
                Drawable drawableTop = null;
                if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
                    drawableStart = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableStartCompat);
                    drawableEnd = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableEndCompat);
                    drawableBottom = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableBottomCompat);
                    drawableTop = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableTopCompat);
                } else {
                    final int drawableStartId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableStartCompat, -1);
                    final int drawableEndId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableEndCompat, -1);
                    final int drawableBottomId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableBottomCompat, -1);
                    final int drawableTopId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableTopCompat, -1);
    
                    if (drawableStartId != -1)
                        drawableStart = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableStartId);
                    if (drawableEndId != -1)
                        drawableEnd = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableEndId);
                    if (drawableBottomId != -1)
                        drawableBottom = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableBottomId);
                    if (drawableTopId != -1)
                        drawableTop = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableTopId);
                }
    
                // to support rtl
                setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds(drawableStart, drawableTop, drawableEnd, drawableBottom);
                attributeArray.recycle();
            }
        }
    }
    
  3. Now you can use it easily in any layouts by your custom attributes:

    <YOUR_VIEW_PACKAGE.CustomTextView
        android:id="@+id/edt_my_edit_text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:drawableStartCompat="@drawable/your_vector_drawable" <!-- vector drawable -->
        app:drawableEndCompat="@drawable/your_vector_drawable" <!-- vector drawable -->
        app:drawableTopCompat="@drawable/your_vector_drawable" <!-- vector drawable -->
        app:drawableBottomCompat="@drawable/your_vector_drawable" <!-- vector drawable -->
        />
    
    • You can do similar thing with Button, EditText and RadioButton because they derived from TextView

Hope this helps :)


The best way I found:

Drawable leftDrawable = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.ic_search);
search.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(leftDrawable, null, null, null);

This solution is no longer correct. From 23.3.0 version vector drawables can only be loaded via app:srcCompat or setImageResource()

Try to wrap your vector drawable into layer-list or selector:

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:drawableRight="@drawable/ic_accessible_white_wrapped"
    android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
    android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
    android:textSize="22sp"
    android:text="Hello World!"/>

ic_accessible_white_wrapped.xml:

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_accessible_white_36px"/>
</layer-list>