hide a portion of button under textedit

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I am trying to achieve exactly something like this

alt text - a text view on left and a button to its right - Button should be wrap_text - textedit should occupy the remaining space

If you carefully see the image in the image the buttons left curved border are hiding under the text view.

I am using relative layout to adjust the button height according to this

How to get a button's height to match another element's height?

But I am unable to hide the left portion of the button.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 09 '12 at 07:49

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Actually the Button isn't hidden under the EditText.

They used custom background for that button, which is 9 patch png image. You can achieve this by providing your 9 patch images for both EditText and Button with 0 margin between them.

Here is a nice tutorial about using 9 patch png.

Another post to consider is Buttons with (niceley) stretched background.

answered Apr 09 '12 at 07:49

Adil Soomro

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I know I can use 9 patch image . But I have my other buttons of the same background which are full ( not hidden) . So just for one button creating another 9patch image is overwork . simple solution would be to slide the button below the `edittext` – Gaurav Shah Apr 09 '12 at 08:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '12 at 12:58

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add android:layout_marginLeft="-10dp" to the button

answered Apr 21 '12 at 12:58

MaciejGórski

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as if it was so simple ?? try it out.. it doesn't slide below with even -100 dp – Gaurav Shah Apr 23 '12 at 07:19

hide a portion of button under textedit

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