Stretch background only horizontally

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Android: Scale a Drawable or background image?

I want to set a drawable (from resources) as background of my view. But I want to stretch it only horizontally. How can I do this?

Very similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9362168/145046 — Aleks N., Feb 20 '12 at 13:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '11 at 21:20

There is no such scaleType that I can see. Have you tried this:

   <ImageView android:id="@+id/imageView"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="100dp"
      android:src="@drawable/image"
      android:scaleType="fitXY">
   </ImageView>

Then, you would need to place this in the background of another view, like making layers in a FrameLayout.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 08 '17 at 08:10

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The best way is to use 9-patch . It's strechable graphic.

Here is description of tool to creating 9-patch graphic.

edited Dec 08 '17 at 08:10

Dennis Schröer

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answered Mar 14 '11 at 17:46

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I tried. The problem with 9patch is that it changes paddings for my view. It is unwanted. – Solvek Mar 14 '11 at 17:47
9patch sets a padding to view. If for example in xml padding was not set and I expect no padding my view has if I set 9patch as background to this view - it set paddings to somthing not 0. – Solvek Mar 14 '11 at 18:00
Have you tried 9patch without padding boxes (bottom and right black line)? – pawelzieba Mar 14 '11 at 18:05
Yes. In this case padding were set to 0, but for my view other value is spevified in layout, and I want this value. – Solvek Mar 14 '11 at 19:55

Stretch background only horizontally

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