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Asked: 2026-05-22T23:53:02+00:00

I am looking to build a button in my Android app which must contain:

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I am looking to build a button in my Android app which must contain:

  • A background picture
  • A picture
  • Some text

I am coming from iPhone dev and I am a little bit confused by Android development.
While I could addSubView: UIImageView or UILabel to my UIButton, I can’t use addView() with a android.widget.Button 🙁

Does anyone have a solution?

EDIT : Thanks everybody for answers. I forgot to specify I have to do it programmatically, without using XML. I don’t know how many element I will display (it depends on RSS).

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  1. Editorial Team

    android:background for background … remeber that you can build your own 9 patch

    android:drawableLeft, android:drawableRight, android:drawableTop, android:drawableBottom to add some picture to the left, right, … of text

    EDIT: i didn’t mention … but i was talking about android.widget.Button

    2nd EDIT: after you provide more information i think that all what you need is ListView

    check this sample http://esilo.pl/LooserSample.zip (don’t take “looser” to yourself, it was sample for another guy)

    it showing how to

    1. download a JSON data
    2. store it in db
    3. build ContentProvider for sharing a data
    4. use ContentProvider to take data from db and show it in ListView
    5. dynamic loading images from internet

    for simpler sample use your sdk samples like this C:\android\android-sdk-windows\samples\android-8\ApiDemos\src\com\example\android\apis\view\List*.java

    if you alrady have code for downloading and storing data from RSS in array extend ArrayAdapter to fit your needs

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