set background inside an image - android xml

Question

In my android app, I need to set background inside an image resource. On attempting to do that, the spaces around the image takes the background as well, but I want the image background to be only inside the image.

<ImageView
                android:id="@+id/pen"
                android:layout_width="16dp"
                android:layout_height="16dp"
                android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
                android:layout_marginRight="5px"
                android:src="@drawable/pencil"
                android:background="#000"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@id/upcount"/>

I have tried to do it programmatically as well but getting the same result

pen.setBackgroundColor(Color.rgb(100, 100, 50));

this is sample of what I try to achieve. let the background be only on the pencil

have look [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/20121975/5110595) — Hemant Parmar, Sep 10 '18 at 10:52
so do you want the arrow to be in different color? or the background behind the arrow? — pskink, Sep 10 '18 at 10:53
Then Remove android:background="#000" . It will set background as black to imageview. and it will not consider image source. can you post @drawable/pencil — Jyoti JK, Sep 10 '18 at 11:16

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '18 at 10:52

This is called tint in Android. You can use android:tint attribute. When you set tint on Image, then image color is changed.

    <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher_foreground"
        android:tint="@color/colorAccent"/>

Use AppCompatImageView for better support of tint on older versions of Android.

You can set it programmatically by this answer.

imageView.setColorFilter(Color.argb(255, 255, 255, 255));

You got down-vote perhaps because your question was not clear. So please use always clear language and read question before posting, that your requirement is clear. — Khemraj Sharma, Sep 10 '18 at 11:57

set background inside an image - android xml

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