Android setBackgroundResource maintain aspect of image

Question

When setting the background of a TextView with setBackgroundResource, how do you maintain the aspect ratio of the image

view.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.day_background);

Even though my image is a round circle, it still comes out oval due to the fact that the TextView is landscape.

UPDATE: The issue is that I'm trying to use the background to set an image that I do not want to scale. From what I understand now of the background of a textview you can't do that (it doesn't make sense, its the background of the textview; it has to cover the entire textview).

The answer is to wrap the textview around a a relative view, center it and then add an image view which is also centered behind it. The image view then can be controlled in size and set appropriately.

Possible duplicate of [How to auto center crop ImageView Android?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17747879/how-to-auto-center-crop-imageview-android) — M. Reza Nasirloo, Mar 04 '16 at 23:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '16 at 14:25

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Answered in the UPDATE. Wrap the TextView in a RelativeView and then use an ImageView as the background which can be controlled.

answered Mar 05 '16 at 14:25

justdan0227

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