ImageView won't fill parent

Question

I have a ScrollView on one of my screens. I want the right edge to have a shadow. I decided the easiest way to do this was to make the child of the ScrollView a RelativeLa

Answer 1

Applying drawable content as the source of an ImageView somewhat carries with it an inherent requirement that you want the view to do what it can to accomodate the content without modifying the content itself very much. Typically, this is the behavior you would want out of an ImageView.

What you really want is the behavior you get by setting drawable content as the background of a view, for which you don't really need ImageView at all. A background is designed to simply stretch, fill, etc. to whatever size the view is. Also, since you are using RelativeLayout you can tell the view to match the bound of the view you are shadowing by adding an id and some extra layout_alignparameters.