Question

I should like to have an android app which has its background image on the bottom of the view.
Hopefully this could be achieved by only using XML.

My background image (bg.png) is located at the folder “res/drawable-mdpi”.
The XML code is now:

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

<ImageView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/bg"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_marginBottom="0dip" />
</LinearLayout>

But this is stretching the whole image over the whole page. I only want it stretched in horizontal direction.
The height has to be in proportion with the (stretched) width.
And this image has to be the background of a view/layout, I want to keep using the layout and add items/objects to it.

I hope someone could help me with this, I’ve been looking on the internet for it for a few hours and I couldn’t find anything more helpful then I have now.

Thanks in advance,

Dennis

Answer 1

Firstly Change your LinearLayout to a RelativeLayout (android:layout_alignParentBottom only works with RelativeLayout).

Secondly use android:src=”@drawable/bg” on your ImageView (not background)