Why do I need to wrap an ImageView into a FrameLayout?

Question

Here is a simple layout:

Answer 1

If you do android:scaleType="FIT_END", without the FrameLayout, does that put the Subway image near the "Subway" text? I wonder, because you have android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" in there. I'm thinking that the ImageView's original size before the scaling is what is throwing off the layout without a FrameLayout.

It probably doesn't matter too much, but it does take some processing to scale and resize the image for what you want it to do. If it is viable for what you want to do, I'd simply resize the image myself instead of relying on XML. If I wanted to cater to multiple sizes, I would have a couple of different layouts made. This of course may be overkill for your purpose, I do not know.