Question

I have a background on my android app with is a png image. It is 800 x 480 px in size.
It is being stretched width wise and hence does not look as I intend it to. As the image is actually the background of the app and not just an imageView I was unable to use the android:scaleType=”centerCrop” to get the image to scale equally.

I need the image to fill the background equally.

I have also tried using NinePatch drawable but the results were not good at all on this – The image became blurred or was OK when being stretched vertically but not width wise.

Here is my XML code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:background="@drawable/menu"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" 

Is there any other command I can use to get the background to display correctly?

Answer 1

to resolve this use draw9patch

android-sdk/tools/draw9patch

https://developer.android.com/tools/help/draw9patch.html