Question

I having an issue where the ImageButton background is being drawn with a different drawable from one of my resources. I’m setting the background to be transparent but on some cases it’s picking up one of my drawables called bottom_shadow.9.png. Why why!? It’s freaking weird…

I’ve seen this issue before… Some of my app users have complained seeing this issue and now I’m determined to figure this out! Take a look below what I currently have. Any tips or ideas would help.

The color value I created under values/colors.xml:

<color name="transparent">#00000000</color>

My ImageButton under my one xml layout under layout/:

<ImageButton
    android:id="@+id/ibHelp"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/settings_list_item_height"
    android:background="@color/transparent"
    android:contentDescription="@string/content_desc_more_information"
    android:paddingLeft="10dp"
    android:paddingRight="10dp"
    android:scaleType="centerInside"
    android:src="@drawable/btn_help" />

This is what I’m seeing on the generated R.java file:

public static final class drawable {
  public static final int bottom_shadow=0x7f020000;
}

public static final class color {
  public static final int transparent=0x7f080009;
}

This is what it should look like:

This is what I’m seeing:

Answer 1

Could it be related to this issue?

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20283