mpAndroidChart: Xaxis.setPosition to Bottom_Inside not working on HorizontalBarChart - mpandroidchart

Question

I have a HorizontalBarChart with mpAndroidChart and I am having problems to display the labels on the left side, but within the graph. It looks like this:
the labels are chopped of on the left side. This is done via the line
testchart.getXAxis().setPosition(XAxis.XAxisPosition.BOTTOM_INSIDE)
On the right side, it works smoothly:
The labels are inside the graph and fully displayed. This is done by the line:
testchart.getXAxis().setPosition(XAxis.XAxisPosition.TOP_INSIDE)
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
My Code for the chart is:
BarData data = new BarData(new BarDataSet(entries, "Labeltest"));
data.setBarWidth(1); // set custom bar width
data.setDrawValues(false);
oBinding.testchart.setData(data);
oBinding.testchart.getXAxis().setLabelCount(labels.size());
oBinding.testchart.getXAxis().setPosition(XAxis.XAxisPosition.BOTTOM_INSIDE);
oBinding.testchart.getXAxis().setValueFormatter(new IndexAxisValueFormatter(labels));
// Hide grid lines
oBinding.testchart.getAxisLeft().setEnabled(false);
oBinding.testchart.getAxisRight().setEnabled(false);
// Hide graph description
oBinding.testchart.getDescription().setEnabled(false);
// Hide graph legend
oBinding.testchart.getLegend().setEnabled(false);
oBinding.testchart.invalidate(); // refresh
and in XML:
<com.github.mikephil.charting.charts.HorizontalBarChart
android:id="#+id/testchart"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

Answer 1

I have encountered the same problem, I solved it this way.
chart.getXAxis().setPosition(XAxisPosition.BOTTOM_INSIDE)
In that way the labels should be drawn over the bars. You can further reposition the labels by using the setXOffset(...) and setYOffset(...) methods of the XAxis class.
If you have a better way, please let me know, thank you

Answer 2

Try this:
XAxis xAxis = chart.getXAxis();
xAxis.setPosition(XAxis.XAxisPosition.BOTTOM_INSIDE);
Added in response to comment from #andreas-zuercher:
This way has always worked for me. This also makes it easy to set other axis parameters like:
xAxis.setDrawGridLines(true);
xAxis.setGranularity(1f);
xAxis.setGranularityEnabled(true);
final String[] xTime = time.split(",");
xAxis.setValueFormatter(new IAxisValueFormatter() {
#Override
public String getFormattedValue(float value, AxisBase axis) {
return xTime[(int) value-1];
}
});
xAxis.setValueFormatter(new IndexAxisValueFormatter(xTime));