How to change an icon of the TextView programmatically?

Question

In the xml you can set a drawable to the left, right, bottom or top of the text in TextView. Is there a way to set / change this drawable through a code?

Does this answer your question? [Programmatically set left drawable in a TextView](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6931900/programmatically-set-left-drawable-in-a-textview) — General Grievance, Sep 01 '22 at 19:15

score 68 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 18 '15 at 15:35

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TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.myTxtView);
textView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(
  R.drawable.icon, //left
  0, //top
  0, //right
  0);//bottom

edited Jun 18 '15 at 15:35

Andrew M.

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answered Oct 02 '12 at 04:49

Ram kiran Pachigolla

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good answer, but my app must support right to left languages, so i need use start instead of left, could you help me please. – Heysem Katibi Jun 05 '13 at 11:07
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@MoHaKa use setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds() – ChangUZ Sep 24 '13 at 06:41

How to change an icon of the TextView programmatically?

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