Padding doesn't work on some devices

Question

I had a strange problems during the set padding to EditText. xml looks like this:

<EditText
    android:layout_width="270dp"
    android:layout_height="55dp"
    android:ems="10"
    android:id="@+id/etEmail"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
    android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
    android:hint="Or Use your Email"
    android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView6"
    android:layout_alignStart="@+id/textView6"
    android:textColorHint="#FFFFFF"
    android:background="@drawable/line_white"
    android:paddingLeft="16.5dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:paddingRight="2dp" />

Here is the screenshot from Samsung Note 2 (Android 5.0.1):

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... and LG G3 (Android 4.4.2):

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As you can see, android:paddingLeft doesn't work for LG.

What could be the reason?

Thanks.

UPD: Layout bounds (LG):

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It must work .. due to different dpi of devices padding varies.. try using a big value like 50 instead of 16.5dp to check if it works or not? Let me know if it works — Salmaan, May 07 '15 at 04:49
@Salmaan The result is the same. Works fine on Samsung, but on LG parameter is ignored. — Mark Korzhov, May 07 '15 at 04:53
Go to developers options and check show layout bounds. Post your screenshot after that... — Salmaan, May 07 '15 at 04:56
PPI of note 2 is 265 where PPI of G3 is almost twice as note i.e.538 how much padding did you applied? — Salmaan, May 07 '15 at 05:11
Just found out there is problem with API level 21. Do it programatically and it will work fine tv.setPadding(20, 20, 20, 20); — Salmaan, May 07 '15 at 05:16

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 07 '15 at 05:40

EditText padding via xml doesn't work after update to API level 21.
But EditText padding works, if it define programmatically.

editText.setPadding(10, 0, 0, 0);

You can track this issue on android issue tracker.

There are some other alternates too, discussed in the issue tracker thread.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '16 at 22:02

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I've noticed this on the HTC One X. This doesn't fix your particular issue, but changing paddingStart to paddingLeft worked for me.

answered Feb 23 '16 at 22:02

Tom

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 07 '15 at 05:19

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This is dpi device problem. Make use of "dimen" folder, give different dp for various device screen sizes. Sure this will solve your problem.

android:paddingLeft="@dimen/yourValueName"

answered May 07 '15 at 05:19

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