Question

i need to set image as background in android gridview. I have code which is using image view to load images. Following codes are my codes, please help me out to solve this issue.

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    if(!isNetworkAvailbale()){
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Internet Connection not available", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        finish();
    }

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.gridview);

    GridView gridview = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.gridview);
    gridview.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this));

    gridview.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int position, long id) {
            Log.d("taust","sds");
            Toast.makeText(NuesHoundRSSActivity.this, "Item co" + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    });

}

ImageAdapter

package com.nues.rss;

import android.content.Context;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.GridView;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
private Context mContext;

public ImageAdapter(Context c) {
    mContext = c;
}

public int getCount() {
    return mThumbIds.length;
}

public Object getItem(int position) {
    return null;
}

public long getItemId(int position) {
    return 0;
}

   // create a new ImageView for each item referenced by the Adapter
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    ImageView imageView;
    if (convertView == null) {  // if it's not recycled, initialize some attributes
        imageView = new ImageView(mContext);
        imageView.setLayoutParams(new GridView.LayoutParams(150, 150));
        imageView.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_CROP);
        imageView.setPadding(1, 1, 1, 1);
    } else {
        imageView = (ImageView) convertView;
    }

    imageView.setImageResource(mThumbIds[position]);
   // imageView.setTag(mThumbIds[position]);
    return imageView;
}

// references to our images
private Integer[] mThumbIds = {
        R.drawable.sample_2, R.drawable.sample_3,
        R.drawable.sample_4, R.drawable.sample_5,
        R.drawable.sample_6, R.drawable.sample_7,
        R.drawable.sample_0, R.drawable.sample_1,
        R.drawable.sample_2, R.drawable.sample_3,
        R.drawable.sample_4, R.drawable.sample_5,
        R.drawable.sample_6, R.drawable.sample_7,
        R.drawable.sample_0, R.drawable.sample_1,
        R.drawable.sample_2, R.drawable.sample_3,
        R.drawable.sample_4, R.drawable.sample_5,
        R.drawable.sample_6, R.drawable.sample_7
};


}

Any body knows how to set images as background of grid items ?

Answer 1

Yeah yeah I get it. You want to show a Custom GridView with a Background set to each Grid Element and have some content over it.

First step is to create a layout and inflate it in the getView method of your Custom Adapter.

Here is a example,

http://www.technotalkative.com/android-gridview-example/

http://android-vogue.blogspot.in/2011/06/custom-gridview-in-android-with.html.