About padding and margin in android

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Praveen samuel
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Mar 29, 2016, 5:50:22 PM via Website

why cant the padding in android be more optimized?
instead of writting code like this
android:paddingLeft="8dp"
android:paddingRight="8dp"
android:paddingTop="8dp"
android:paddingBottom="8dp"

why cant we write like this
android:padding="8dp 8dp 8dp 8dp" // "top right bottom left"

In the similar way to margin in android
android:layout_margin="5dp 5dp 9dp 6dp" // "top right bottom left"

:)

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Vladimir S. 18
Vladimir S.
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Mar 29, 2016, 10:14:32 PM via Website

Android Studio has Layout Editor, where you can choose ALL for margins and paddings:
padding

Praveen samuel

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Praveen samuel
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Mar 30, 2016, 1:27:33 PM via Website

Thank you Vladimir all is for giving value 8dp to all sides if I need "8dp 7dp 16dp 10dp" why can't I achieve in this manner.☺️

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Ashish Tripathi 13
Ashish Tripathi
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Mar 31, 2016, 9:37:25 AM via Website

why cant we write like this
android:padding="8dp 8dp 8dp 8dp" // "top right bottom left"

In the similar way to margin in android
android:layout_margin="5dp 5dp 9dp 6dp" // "top right bottom left"

you can use this in tun time. Let sat yous have a textview which id is @+id/text than

text.setpadding(left,right,top,bottom) but not in xml file.

same for margin you can use.

cheers

Praveen samuel

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