Question

I want to add an image to a Button (no imagebutton, as the particular button can either contain text or an image; plus the imagebutton has the same problem), while still retaining the original android-style button. So adding android:background in the XML doesn’t cut it, as that will remove the android default button with rounded corners etc. (android.R.drawable.btn_default)

Is this in any way possible?

I think one way is to make a 9patch image for the button pressed (one for up and one for down) and onTouch Action_DOWN make a layered background drawable and put that onto the button, and doing the same thing but with another 9patch for onTouch Action_UP, but I think that will decrease the performance of the application substantially, as that will require quite a lot of resource reading and layer merging for all the button clicks (and for my application, that will be quite a lot). Is what I state above correct?

EDIT: I can’t declare the source of the image in the XML, because I get the images from a web service, so anything can be put on the Buttons, but it has to happen programmatically.

Answer 1

This can be done using the android:drawableTop, android:drawableBottom, android:drawableLeft, android:drawableRight attributes in your layout.xml.