Android : How To Add A Background Image To Droid Activity
Oct 12, 2010
My goal is to develop a GUI application on top of a background image with buttons in specific places on the image. The first step is to display the background.
The image can be displayed with resources and is described in several FAQs including this one:
how-to-add-background-image-to-activity
It compiles and runs without errors, but the background is black. Here is the main.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/rootRL" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@drawable/background">
</RelativeLayout>
The image has been in png, 9.png, and jpg format with basenames of 'main' and 'background'. It builds but does not display. Making clean and recompiling does not help.
This behavior occurs on both the emulator and on hardware -- an Atmel AT91SAM9M10-G45-EK. The SDK version is 2.0.1.
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Jul 22, 2010
Using theme or ImageView ?
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Sep 12, 2010
I am a bit confused on creating an image which will be acting as a background for my activities. So, in short, my aim is that my application should be able to fit the different screen sizes. Therefore, what size in pixel should my three images be to be able to fill the screen of the device in ldpi, mdpi and hdpi?
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Aug 13, 2010
I'm battling with extending a TextView for my Android app. I'd like to create "bubbles" to display text messages in a conversation, similar to the native iPhone SMS conversations.
Is there a way to implement the resizing of a background image without just stretching it? I'd like to have a single background image that keeps it's corners but get stretched only in defined areas. I think this should be possible because I've seen it in a SMS app, but I wonder how to implement that.
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Oct 4, 2010
It seems background images are automatically shrunk in Android, for example, I use setBackgroundDrawable to set background of a view code...
Instead of shrinking, I want the image to be cropped to fit the screen size. How to do it?
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Nov 2, 2010
I've used the following code to repeat the image in the background but its not working code...
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Sep 17, 2010
I have a widget layout xml which sets the src to the delivered android widget 4x1 frame image.Here is the widget layout code...
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Mar 17, 2010
Is there a way I can remove the background bar image in the SeekBar android widget?
I just want it to show a slider with no progress bar behind it.
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Feb 17, 2010
Can you please tell me how can I place an background image to a the left upper corner of TextView in android? I would like the image not to be scaled by android.
I have tried
Resources res = getResources();
setCompoundDrawables(res.getDrawable(R.drawable.icon48x48_1), null, null, null);
Nothing is shown.
And I have tried
setBackground(R.drawable.icon48x48_1);
But it stretches the image.
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Jul 18, 2010
When I try to add an image for the background in Handcent, it changes my phone background and makes the handcent background black.
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Jan 28, 2013
I had the HTC Desire Z, so, I think it's not related to Droid 4, but it's Android specific.
However, whenever I try to set a background image, this one is always enlarged, coming out the edges, no matter what its size is, while I expect it to fit the display, even deformed, just as when I set a desktop image on my PC. That's what happened for example with my old Nokia N82: the image was scaled to fit the display.
I even tried to set an image of the exact resolution of the display (540 x 960), but it was always enlarged. So, is actually there a way to put a background image so that if fits the display and is not enlarged?
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Jan 10, 2010
I created an application which enables the user to set whether he wants to receive notification while the application runs in background mode. If the notifications are enabled an activity should be started (the dialog should appear on the screen).
I tried to enabled it the following way:
CODE:...........
This is the method from main activity. When onPause() is executed isRunningInBackground is set true.
When I tried to debug it when the main application was running in the background the line
startActivity(intent) had no effect (the activity didn't appear).
Does anyone know how to midify the logic in order to start an activity from the main activity when the main activity is running in the background (after onPause() is called)?
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How can I remove a background image and get the original background?
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Nov 30, 2009
Is there a way to set the background image as static so it doesn't span across each desktop?
I'm using Open Home if it makes a difference..
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Apr 18, 2010
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I want have an image and i want to set it as a background of android list view. i have used android:background="drawable/image" but nothing happened. how to achieve this?
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Apr 28, 2010
I am developing a live Wallpaper on android 2.1
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Have you got a solution?
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Oct 2, 2010
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CODE:.....
The whole background still stretches the whole screen width.
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The codeblock i am using is as:
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