How can i put icons on the textfield like this

[sagaya]

[adamdahan]

@Cosmo1234

Few techniques you can use for this:

1. You can tap into the textField sublayers and perform a transform that will push the actual textfield's editable view over to the right. Then you can just draw the image in the paddings space.
2. You can override UITextfield layout and add an image as a subview @ position 0, 0.
3. You can create a custom view with a regular textfield + a CAShapeLayer as a divider and an image as subviews.

@DanielDahan Might be nice to consider this for option in Material 2.

Thanks @Cosmo1234 - closing this ticket.

[daniel-jonathan]

@adamdahan agreed.

[CavalcanteLeo]

any news about that?

Using leftView, the layout looks like was made by an amateur designer.
And adding as subview, it's impossible to add extra padding to the text, so the icon will be over the text
And the textInset is not visible in objective-c

@DanielDahan

adding as subview:

adding as leftView:

[daniel-jonathan]

@CavalcanteLeo can you try this commit: 5065e88, it is available in Objc-C now. As well, have you looked at the TextField sample? To put it fully across as the image above, I will need to investigate that.

[CavalcanteLeo]

I could do it by creating a UITextField Category in objective-c

#import <objc/runtime.h>

@implementation UITextField (Padding)

#pragma clang diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wobjc-protocol-method-implementation"

- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
    return CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x + 21, bounds.origin.y + 8,
                      bounds.size.width - 31, bounds.size.height - 16);
}
- (CGRect)editingRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
    return [self textRectForBounds:bounds];
}

@end

and then i just imported to my viewcontroller,

But i will try this commit, this might work, and will be much better than create a category to change the properties

[daniel-jonathan]

@CavalcanteLeo Yes, I reopened the issue to make an internal fix for this :) Maybe you can suggest something before I jump into this issue more.

[CavalcanteLeo]

It's visible now, and worked perfectly!

Thanks dude!

[daniel-jonathan]

Amazing!