Programmatically set left drawable in a TextView

From here I see the method setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(int,int,int,int) can be used to do this.

You can use setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(int left, int top, int right, int bottom)

set 0 where you don't want images

Example for Drawable on the left:

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTxtView);
textView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(R.drawable.icon, 0, 0, 0);

Alternatively, you can use setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds to respect RTL/LTR layouts.

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Tip: Whenever you know any XML attribute but don't have clue about how to use it at runtime. just go to the description of that property in developer doc. There you will find Related Methods if it's supported at runtime . i.e. For DrawableLeft