How to implement an android:background that doesn't stretch?

Question

I found this great thread describing how to \"eat the cake and have it too\", i.e. use image for a Button instead of ImageButton (which doesn\'t al

Answer 1

You can create an xml bitmap and use it as background for the view. To prevent stretching you can specify android:gravity attribute.

for example:

There are a lot of options you can use to customize the rendering of the image

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#Bitmap