How to programatically set drawableLeft on Android button?

You can use the setCompoundDrawable method to do this. see the example here. I used this without using the setBounds and it worked for. u can try either way.

UPDATE: Copying the code here incase the link goes down

Drawable img = getContext().getResources().getDrawable( R.drawable.smiley );
img.setBounds( 0, 0, 60, 60 );
txtVw.setCompoundDrawables( img, null, null, null );

or

Drawable img = getContext().getResources().getDrawable( R.drawable.smiley );
txtVw.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds( img, null, null, null);

or

txtVw.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds( R.drawable.smiley, 0, 0, 0);