Building a 9 patch drawable at runtime

Question

I am successfully building a 9patch drawable at runtime on Android 3.0+ using the excellent gist provided by Brian Griffey (found here).

Essentially I load the raw (

Answer 1

Not really an answer to the question, but a useful workaround...

I've always found working with 9-patch files at runtime to be hairy. I have been successfully able to use FrameLayouts and automatic resizing of text to accomplish my desired effects. If your app will just be using this 9-patch, and not specifically allowing the user to download it as an image (an android 9-patch image generator, so to speak), I would advise you to look into that.