ImageView displaying in layout but not on actual device

I have an ImageView that I want to display matching the full width of the device, I realized that like this:

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/home_bar_newvault"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:scaleType="centerCrop"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:src="@drawable/home_bar" />

The home_bar is a PNG image file with the following dimensions: 2399x254. When I choose to view the Graphical Layout of the UI it displays the imageview correctly at the bottom of the activity. However, when I start the application on my device it won't display the Imageview at all.

I had the same issue, it is only showing in Design tab for Android Studio 2.2.

What I did to make it work is to change the automatic key assigned (populated via Drag/Drop ImageView) from app:srcCompat="@drawable/logo" to android:src="@drawable/logo" in Text tab to make it appear on both the emulator and the device e.g

<ImageView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/logo"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="75dp"
    android:id="@+id/logoImageView"
    android:scaleType="fitXY"
    android:scaleX="1.5"
    android:scaleY="1.5" />

Alright I've tried changing the resolution of the image (cutting it in half making it 1000x130), and somehow that fixed the problem. I think Android can't render large images like that directly? I don't know, if you know more about the subject please don't hesitate to reply! Anyway, scaling down the image worked.

you can use:

android:background="@drawable/home_bar"

instead of:

android:src="@drawable/home_bar"

Use drawable-nodpi folder in res if image is too big.

Juan Francisco Romero Gutirrez

I had the same issue and was able to solve it using following.

My problem was that the direction of the drawable archive was wrote in the second scrCompact box.

I copy-pasted in the up box and the issue solved.

I had a problem with a samsung phone not displaying my drawable but it worked fine on another phone. The picture was not in any large dimensions or otherwise abnormal.

To solve this I simply put my picture asset into a drawable subfolder instead of having it in the main drawable folder. E.g from res/drawable to res/drawable-mdpi worked for me. If you have a picture to use for everything not having a specific dpi, put it into res/drawable-nodpi. Here's a bit more about the dpi folders.

None of the above did the trick, it was a really big image, found this solution: In your manifest file

<application
        //this solve it for me.
        android:hardwareAccelerated="false"
        // Add this if the previuos line didn't solve tge problem
        android:largeHeap="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

Solve it for me.

Hope it helps someone.

For me, the problem was that I was using