TextInputLayout error text padding

Question

I am using TextInputLayout with AppCompatEditText having a custom xml shape based background for AppCompatEditText. Whenever i set some error , the error line starts from beginning of layout. Is there any way to give padding to that error line.

refer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32609710/textinputlayout-how-to-give-padding-or-margin-to-hint — sasikumar, Jan 21 '16 at 07:26
Remove background image to EditText it solve your problem background image to the EditText Creat this problem — Mahesh Suthar, Feb 17 '16 at 10:51

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered May 31 '17 at 13:01

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You can reference error TextView by using:

TextView textView = (TextView) inputLayout.findViewById(android.support.design.R.id
            .textinput_error);

Then you can get its layout params to work with.

answered May 31 '17 at 13:01

Boris Kozyrev

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risky hack is risky. at the same time tho, I don't think the id would change anytime soon – Aba May 20 '18 at 11:03
Keep in mind that the error text view is created only when error is displayed, so you need to change params after you display an error in your TextInputLayout. – Almighty May 22 '19 at 20:11

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 13 '21 at 20:32

I struggled to solve this and this is what worked for me:

Removing the padding on the parent of the parent of my error textview

Using this solution I could find the error textview (cause I needed to add an icon to it) but couldn´t get rid of the padding, so after a few tries I realized that TextInputLayout has 2 childs so removing the padding from the second child did the trick and just to be sure, I removed it also from the first one

Using Kotlin extensions I came up with a clean solution

/**
 * TextInputLayout
 */
fun TextInputLayout.removePadding() {
    for (i in 0 until this.childCount) {
        this.getChildAt(i).setPadding(0)
    }
}

You can do it also in java using the same logic.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 05 '17 at 18:12

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:id="@+id/tx_in_username"
    android:errorEnabled="true"
    android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/margin_LEFT_RIGHT"
    android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/margin_LEFT_RIGHT"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_height="36sp"
    android:hint="Username"
    />

for Inner EditText Don't Use marginLeft and marginRight – Mallikarjuna Mar 05 '17 at 18:14 — Mallikarjuna, Mar 05 '17 at 18:14

TextInputLayout error text padding

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