How to make an ImageView with rounded corners?

Question

In Android, an ImageView is a rectangle by default. How can I make it a rounded rectangle (clip off all 4 corners of my Bitmap to be rounded rectangles) in the ImageView?

Answer 1

In the v21 of the Support library there is now a solution to this: it's called RoundedBitmapDrawable.

It's basically just like a normal Drawable except you give it a corner radius for the clipping with:

setCornerRadius(float cornerRadius)

So, starting with Bitmap src and a target ImageView, it would look something like this:

RoundedBitmapDrawable dr = RoundedBitmapDrawableFactory.create(res, src);
dr.setCornerRadius(cornerRadius);
imageView.setImageDrawable(dr);