Question

I want to remove the font padding from an Android button?

I’ve tried set includeFontPadding to false, but it has no effect.

How can i change the font padding of the button?

Answer 1

You need to define a seperate drawable resource for the button something like this.
For example this is button_layout.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<item android:state_pressed="true" >
    <shape>
        <gradient
            android:startColor="#F5B800"
            android:endColor="#F5B800"
            android:angle="270" />
        <stroke
            android:width="1dp"
            android:color="#ffcc00" />
        <corners
            android:radius="1dp" />
        <padding
            android:left="10dp"
            android:top="10dp"
            android:right="10dp"
            android:bottom="10dp" />
    </shape>
</item>

<item android:state_focused="true" >
    <shape>
        <gradient
            android:endColor="#F5B800"
            android:startColor="#F5B800"
            android:angle="270" />
        <stroke
            android:width="1dp"
            android:color="#ffcc00" />
        <corners
            android:radius="1dp" />
        <padding
            android:left="10dp"
            android:top="10dp"
            android:right="10dp"
            android:bottom="10dp" />
    </shape>
</item>
<item>        
    <shape>
        <gradient
            android:endColor="#ff9900"
            android:startColor="#ffcc00"
            android:angle="270" />
        <stroke
            android:width="1dp"
            android:color="#ffcc00" />
        <corners
            android:radius="1dp" />
        <padding
            android:left="10dp"
            android:top="10dp"
            android:right="10dp"
            android:bottom="10dp" />
    </shape>
</item>
</selector>

Here you can arrange the padding as you want for the button.
And when you are declaring the button use this as the background.
Something like.

<Button android:id="@+id/sample_button"  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
    android:background="@layout/button_layout"
        android:text="Sample Button" />