title: Android: Is it possible to make a drawable left start from the left edge of a button?
body: <p>I've searched for weeks but there's no answer for this yet. Most suggestions are to use drawablepadding:left, but this only increases the space away from the egde of the button.</p>
  
  <p>I've also tried drawablemargin:left and right, but they don't bring the button closer to the edge. </p>
  
  <p>Here's the button I have;
  <a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/LW6zG.png" rel="nofollow">button with drawable left</a></p>
  
  <p>Here's what I hope to achieve:
  <a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/wcyeP.png" rel="nofollow">button with drawable close to edge</a></p>
  
  <p>here's the xml snippet:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code> &lt;Button
          android:id="@+id/btn_back"
          android:drawableLeft="@drawable/back_button_white"
          android:layout_width="180dp"
          android:layout_height="90dp"
          android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
          android:background="@drawable/negative_button"
          android:paddingLeft="10dp"
          android:paddingRight="10dp"
          android:text="Exit"
          tools:ignore="RtlHardcoded"
          android:textSize="35sp"
          /&gt;</code></pre>
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