How to add an icon before each item in alert dialog?

Question

I am using an AlertDialog (see the below code) and would like to put an image before each text.

For example, email icon then text "Email", Facebook icon then text "Facebook", etc.

Using the following code, how to add an icon before each text value?

final CharSequence[] items = { "Email", "Facebook", "Twitter", "LinkedIn" };
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(More.this);
builder.setTitle("Share Appliction");
builder.setItems(items, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int item) {
        if (item == 0) {

        } else if (item == 1) {

        } else if (item == 2) {

        } else if(item == 3) {

        }
    }
});
AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
alert.show();

Answer 1

You need custom ListAdapter to add your image. One way is to subclass the ArrayAdapter (used by default by the AlertDialog ). Here is an example:

final Item[] items = {
    new Item("Email", android.R.drawable.ic_menu_add),
    new Item("Facebook", android.R.drawable.ic_menu_delete),
    new Item("...", 0),//no icon for this one
};

ListAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter<Item>(
    this,
    android.R.layout.select_dialog_item,
    android.R.id.text1,
    items){
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            //Use super class to create the View
            View v = super.getView(position, convertView, parent);
            TextView tv = (TextView)v.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);

            //Put the image on the TextView
            tv.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(items[position].icon, 0, 0, 0);

            //Add margin between image and text (support various screen densities)
            int dp5 = (int) (5 * getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density + 0.5f);
            tv.setCompoundDrawablePadding(dp5);

            return v;
        }
    };


new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
    .setTitle("Share Appliction")
    .setAdapter(adapter, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int item) {
            //...
        }
    }).show();

Here is the Item class

public static class Item{
    public final String text;
    public final int icon;
    public Item(String text, Integer icon) {
        this.text = text;
        this.icon = icon;
    }
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return text;
    }
}

Answer 2

Do something like this:

ViewGroup layout=new LinearLayout(context);
TextView tv=new TextView(context); //your text
tv.setText("my text"); 
ImageView imageView=new ImageView(context); //your icon
//filling image view with icon bitmap (in this case from resource)
imageView.setImageBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeStream(context.getResources().openRawResource(resourceId)));
//ensuring that icon size will be more or less like text height
imageView.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
imageView.setMaxHeight((int )(tv.getLineHeight()*1.5));
imageView.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE);
layout.addView(imageView); //adding icon
tv.setGravity(Gravity.BOTTOM|Gravity.LEFT);
layout.addView(tv); //adding text

Total idea is to create layout/viewgroup and add icon+text+whatever you want into viewgroup

Answer 3

To scale images:

//Put the image on the TextView
int dp50 = (int) (50 * getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density + 0.5f);
Drawable dr = getResources().getDrawable(R...YOUR_DRAWABLE);
Bitmap bitmap = ((BitmapDrawable) dr).getBitmap();
Drawable d = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, dp50, dp50, true));
tv.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(d, null, null, null);

// Add margin between image and text (support various screen densities)
int dp10 = (int) (10 * getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density + 0.5f);
tv.setCompoundDrawablePadding(dp10);

Answer 4

I like Tom Esterez 's solution but recommend using the relative function instead for RTL support.

So use this:

tv.setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds(items[position].iconID, 0, 0, 0);

instead of this:

tv.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(items[position].iconID, 0, 0, 0);