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

Use draw9patch... included within Android Studio's SDK tools. You can define the stretchable areas of your image. Important parts are constrained and the image doesn't look all warped. A good demo on dra9patch is HERE

Use draw9patch to change your existing splash.png into new_splash.9.png, drag new_splash.9.png into the drawable-hdpi project folder ensure the AndroidManifest and styles.xml are proper as below:

AndroidManifest.xml:

styles.xml: