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I am trying to add an image to a button(image button or normal button) but not in a specific res/drawable folder.
I want this image as a ImageView object or drawable object etc, but I couldn't.

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  • I'm sorry, I did not understood your question clearly. Could you explain it again please. – Varun Kumar Aug 03 '16 at 02:52
  • ok thanks. Here is what I want to do. I have a button and I want to put image object on it. For example in java language, there is setIcon() method and you can put icon object but in android there is not. – Enes Aug 03 '16 at 03:36

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You can set an icon for Button by adding following attribute in XML for Button like this:

android:drawableLeft="@drawable/button_icon"

If you want to know how to do it programmatically, follow this article: How to programmatically set drawableLeft on Android button?

Or just add 'background':

<Button
    android:id="@+id/imageButton1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/qrcode"/>

But i think it's better if you use ImageButton, see this example:

<ImageButton
    android:id="@+id/searchImageButton"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@android:drawable/your_image_drawable" />
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  • For the ImageButton, if you want the image to fill a button of a given size you can also set the size of the button and then use android:scaleType="fitXY" to fill it. Adding some padding allows it not quite fill to the edge also. – Mick Apr 06 '21 at 10:52
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Use ImageButton and add src in your background:

<ImageButton
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@android:drawable/yourImageNameHere"
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