Android Splashscreen background repeat pattern

Question

I am trying to have this image repeated as the background of my splashscreen. This is my splashscreen.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:src="@drawable/ic_background_blue"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:tileMode="repeat"/>
    </item>
    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:gravity="center"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_splash_logo"/>
    </item>
</layer-list>

but the tile android:tileMode="repeat" seem to be ignored and the image is stretched to the aspect ratio of the screen.

Edit:

the android:tileMode="repeat" works for the activity background, but I am trying to archieve this on the splashscreen. Theandroid:gravity="center" doesnt seem to make any difference.

The real layout of my activity is irrelevant, since it never gets used I guess. Here the code of my SplashActivity.java:

package de.ranellstudios.creactivity;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SplashActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, MenuActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
        finish();
    }
}

I connected the splashscreen.xml with my SplashActivity by adding a new theme to my styles.xml:

<style name="SplashTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/splashscreen</item>
</style>

and this

<activity
        android:name=".SplashActivity"
        android:theme="@style/SplashTheme"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait">

to my manifest.

I am just trying to make the image I linked at the top repeat in the background of my splashscreen instead of beeing stretched to the screen size. Any ideas?

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Somehow it seems to work now, sorry for the inconvenience and thanks your your help. the code above is now correct.

Possible duplicate of [How to make android app's background image repeat](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2706913/how-to-make-android-apps-background-image-repeat) — akhilesh0707, Sep 22 '17 at 11:59
@akhilesh0707I provided more information since the `android:tileMode="repeat"` doesnt seem to work. Or am I missing something? — Julian Z., Sep 22 '17 at 12:25

JudgedPluto · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-09T18:02:57.173

Seems like you are not using <layer-list> in your drawable. try this code instead.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:src="@drawable/ic_background_blue"
            android:tileMode="repeat"/>
    </item>
    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:gravity="center"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_splash_logo"/>
    </item>
</layer-list>

EDIT: Checked the image that you provided and its resolution seems to be too big (2000 x 2000). Possible solutions are scaling the image down manually or make the image background programmatically.

Android Splashscreen background repeat pattern

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