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Asked: 2026-05-24T04:26:39+00:00

What I need to do is have the background image just fill up the

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What I need to do is have the background image just fill up the natural size of the button, as when no background is specified and the default grey background image is shown. But instead, my button scales up to the size of the background image rather than the text.

There was a previous question, but nobody had a solution.

The button:

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<Button
    android:id="@+id/morebtn"
    style="@style/CustomButton"
    android:text="More" />

I have this custom button style (greybutton is a 9-patch): 

<resources>
    <style name="CustomButton" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance">
        <item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
        <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">10dip</item>
        <item name="android:layout_marginRight">10dip</item>
        <item name="android:layout_marginBottom">10dip</item>
        <item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
        <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
        <item name="android:layout_centerInParent">true</item>
        <item name="android:background">@drawable/greybutton</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    </style>
</resources>

Right now it fills up the screen widthwise, despite being told to wrap_content. When I remove android:background from the Button style, the button shrinks down to wrap the text as expected.

Does anyone see why my background image isn’t behaving like the default Button background?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Damnit. I had an hdpi drawable that hadn’t been converted to 9patch, and for some reason that was getting applied instead of the one in the mdpi drawables folder even on my mdpi screen. The background scaling actually does work as expected after all. Sorry!

    (So if you’re browsing this question with a similar problem, check your drawables folder to make sure you’re drawing what you think you are. Also: may wish to be sure the content boundaries in your nine-patch are of the appropriate size. Note that they aren’t the same as the stretchable boundaries.)

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