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CompoundIconTextView

An android library that is able to set a vector drawable at text view pre-Lollipop.

From AAkira·Updated June 5, 2026·View on GitHub·

An android library that is able to set a vector drawable at text view pre-Lollipop. The project is written primarily in Java, first published in 2017. Key topics include: android, android-library, textview, vector-drawable.

Latest release: 1.2.1
November 14, 2017View Changelog →

CompoundIconTextView

An android library that is able to set a vector drawable at text view pre-Lollipop.

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Features

  • Set a vector drawable at text view pre-Lollipop

Usage

Gradle

You should set this line in your gradle file if you set colors to vector drawable pre-Lollipop.

gradle
android { defaultConfig { vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true } }

Code

Java
CompoundIconTextView tv = (CompoundIconTextView) findViewById(R.id.compoundIconTextView); // set icon drawable tv.setVectorDrawableTop(R.drawable.ic_android_black_24dp); tv.setVectorDrawableLeft(R.drawable.ic_android_black_24dp); // set icon color tv.setIconColorResource(R.color.colorPrimary); // set icon size tv.setIconSizeResource(R.dimen.icon_size, R.dimen.icon_size); tv.setIconSize(32, 32); // clear icon tv.setVectorDrawableRight(CompoundIconTextView.UNDEFINED_RESOURCE);

Xml

xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <com.github.aakira.compoundicontextview.CompoundIconTextView android:id="@+id/compoundIconTextView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:drawablePadding="4dp" android:gravity="center" android:text="Hello World!" android:textColor="#3F51B5" android:textSize="16sp" app:cit_drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_android_black_24dp" app:cit_iconColor="#000" app:cit_iconHeight="16dp" app:cit_iconWidth="16dp" />

Attributes

attribute namedescription
cit_drawableLeftSets a drawable or vector drawable to left of TextView
cit_drawableTopSets a drawable or vector drawable to top of TextView
cit_drawableBottomSets a drawable or vector drawable to bottom of TextView
cit_drawableRightSets a drawable or vector drawable to right of TextView
cit_drawableStartSets a drawable or vector drawable to start of TextView (for RTL)
cit_drawableEndSets a drawable or vector drawable to end of TextView (for RTL)
cit_iconWidthSets a width of icon
cit_iconHeightSets a width of icon
cit_iconColorSets a icon color

Setup

Gradle

Add the dependency in your build.gradle

groovy
buildscript { repositories { jcenter() } } dependencies { compile 'com.github.aakira:compound-icon-textview:1.2.1@aar' }

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Author

Akira Aratani

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License

Copyright (C) 2017 A.Akira

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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