Edittext input type alignment extra space

Question

I want to give extra space to input texts in my edit text. here is what I have now :

but I want to achieve this :

which property of edittext will do this (in xml) ? or I have to do this in another way ?

Thanks in advance !

Answer 1

android:paddingLeft is the property you need. You can use it as android:paddingLeft="8dp"

Checkout this answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4619943/1739882

Answer 2

Add this attribute:

android:paddingLeft="10dp"

padding usually used to give an alignment to the text inside the EditText or even Buttons

please inform me if this is what you are looking for