Custom button form (House/Tree etc.)

Question

I'm a bit new to Android, therefore question may sound ridiculous, but:

Is there any way to make a button in form of smthg? There ate tons of apps, where you press on a tree or some house and some action starts. How is that made? Not action, but form. Or there is no way to make button NOT rectangular?

Possible duplicate of [How to create custom button in Android using XML Styles](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18507351/how-to-create-custom-button-in-android-using-xml-styles) — Morrison Chang, Jul 04 '16 at 06:01
Button is View like an ImageView or TextView, you might be talking about onClick Listeners see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3505841/onclick-listener-in-android — johnrao07, Jul 04 '16 at 06:01
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Buttons are Views which are always rectangular but doesn't need to look like they are rectangular. Alternatively look at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16670774/clickable-area-of-image — Morrison Chang, Jul 04 '16 at 06:19

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 04 '16 at 06:01

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You are talking about imagebutton.Image button documentation

For example creating a button with tree background.Example:

<ImageButton android:src="@drawable/tree.png"></ImageButton>

answered Jul 04 '16 at 06:01

Javasamurai

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Well, button will appear rectangular. But what if i want to make an cloud, for example? – Oleksandr Zakrevskyi Jul 04 '16 at 06:04
Assign a shape to it.Create a shape drawable and assign the button background as that shape. [example](http://blog.vogella.com/2011/07/19/android-shapes/) – Javasamurai Jul 04 '16 at 06:09

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '16 at 06:02

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Yes you can do that. Considering your trees and house as an image.

    ImageView im;
    im = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image_of_tree);
    im.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            //perform some action
        }
    });

answered Jul 04 '16 at 06:02

Nishant Thapliyal

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But can i do it NOT rectangular? i mean, button actually in form of tree. – Oleksandr Zakrevskyi Jul 04 '16 at 06:08
Try this, I think rectangle will not appear in background. – Nishant Thapliyal Jul 04 '16 at 06:10
Yeah, but when i'll press not on a tree, but somewhere near, still in rectangle area, it will do some action, which i don't want. That's why i asked how to make button JUST in form of smthg. – Oleksandr Zakrevskyi Jul 04 '16 at 06:13
Okay, as mentioned above go to this link:- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18507351/how-to-create-custom-button-in-android-using-xml-styles and give shape to to your background. – Nishant Thapliyal Jul 04 '16 at 06:22

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 04 '16 at 06:19

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Off-course When you get inflated your layout and your view(can be any view) is available by id. your button can be an ImageView, ImageButton etc. just find the id for your view and set whatever event you want to listen by this view.

answered Jul 04 '16 at 06:19

Rajesh Soni

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Custom button form (House/Tree etc.)

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