I've followed the Stackoverflow post here to use a 9_patch to add a dropshadow. However, it either scales funnily in my layout, or isn't rendered on my phone.
The layout consists of a root horizontal linear layout. The first item is an imageview with my picture. The second item is a table view with buttons. The image and table are supposed to scale to be half and half of the screen, so I set both weights to 1. I set the imageview scale to width=fit_content and height=match_parent and it scales accordingly. However, the backdrop image and padding are incorrectly applied no matter what I try. Individual padding on each side is ignored and I can only apply a uniform padding, but the imageview's background stretches from top to bottom. In effect, though I can scale the image to the desired size, the imageview background seems to fit different dimensions.
Do I need to use a containing layout?
Edit: This is the .xml code. I've tried all sorts of variations with no success.
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="@drawable/dropshadowt"
android:paddingBottom="10dp"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:paddingTop="10dp"
android:scaleType="fitCenter"
android:src="@drawable/x2c2" />
<TableLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="@drawable/sgfill" >
<TableRow
android:id="@+id/tableRow1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</TableRow>
<TableRow
android:id="@+id/tableRow2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</TableRow>
<TableRow
android:id="@+id/tableRow3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</TableRow>
<TableRow
android:id="@+id/tableRow4"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
