Creating a 9 patch procedurally?

Asked Jan 04 '13 at 13:12

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Create a NinePatch/NinePatchDrawable in runtime

I'm trying to create a 9 patch image procedurally but can't see how to do it. Is there any way to take a normal PNG/JPG image and adapt it so that I can specify a center width and center height to generate a 9 patch drawable?

I was going to create a bitmap at runtime and add the black edge markers into the bitmap and create the 9 patch from this in the app but reading this thread it seems it's not possible due to additional magic data that is created by the resource compiler so any pointers?

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Essentially I know the image will be used for a button and will have 4, 4x4 corners that should not be stretched and the remaining pixels in the center are able to be stretched.

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try this http://developer.android.com/tools/help/draw9patch.html – AbstractChaos Jan 04 '13 at 13:13
try to use this link .. http://www.androiddom.com/2011/05/android-9-patch-image-tutorial.html – itsrajesh4uguys Jan 04 '13 at 13:18
I think you can create the 9-patch by drawing on the Bitmap, but to use inside your application.Maybe you can find a solution on http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/NinePatchDrawable.html – Marcio Covre Jan 04 '13 at 13:50
Thanks Padma, yes that's the answer and some – sradforth Jan 04 '13 at 15:19

Creating a 9 patch procedurally?

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