android text not showing in button

Question

This happens very frequently to me when starting to work on android. The text within the button element is not showing fully. What can be wrong? I tried text direction, alignment, gravity but nothing works.

The code behind it:

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
    android:text="@string/latestButtonString"
    android:background="@drawable/roundbutton" />

Please help and much appreciated.

Update: This is the roundbutton.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" android:padding="10dp">
<!-- you can use any color you want I used here gray color-->
 <solid android:color="#ABABAB"/> 
    <corners
     android:bottomRightRadius="10dp"
     android:bottomLeftRadius="10dp"
  android:topLeftRadius="10dp"
  android:topRightRadius="10dp"/>
</shape>

Solution 1

I had this problem, I solved it by chaning the xml for the button from using tools: to android: for the text attribute. Example below (last line is the line thats changed):

 <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_settings"
            style="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:textColor="#F6F6F6"
            tools:text="App Settings" />

becomes...

 <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_settings"
            style="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:textColor="#F6F6F6"
            android:text="App Settings" />

Solution 2

try to replace android:text="@string/latestButtonString"

and put direct hardcode string here as,

 android:text="hello"

or

try to replace this line in roundbutton.xml:

<android:shape="rectangle" android:padding="10dp"> 

with

<android:shape="rectangle" android:padding="3dp"> 

Solution 3

Can you please check by removing android:background="@drawable/roundbutton" from your button attribute. If text shown fully, then you need to modify the @drawable/roundbutton" there may be you have set fixed width thus your text in button is not fully visible.

Solution 4

It seems that you have a paddingLeft on your Button. Can you check if this is present in your styles.xml?

If it is in your styles.xml, it is probably important for the theme of your app.

If you would just want to cancel it in that certain Button, just put

android:paddingLeft="0dp"

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