ImageButton in Android with transparent background

Question

I have follow this post to make ImageButton in android

The image appears to the button but it has some background , my Image is a png image and I want the button to be transparent background

any one help please

score 80 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 08 '12 at 15:16

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add this line to your ImageButton xml layout.

android:background="@null"

answered Feb 08 '12 at 15:16

Sunny

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Wow, that simple... Thx! – Sindri Þór Sep 11 '15 at 11:24
But I'm setting the image in the background property itself! – Ruchir Baronia Dec 10 '15 at 10:13
If you want an image with a transparent background you can do it like this in the xml layout: `android:background="@null" android:src="@drawable/myimage"` – DMcDonald Mar 09 '16 at 12:59

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '14 at 12:31

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Here's an alternative solution that worked for me:

android:background="@android:color/transparent"

As Sunny said, add it to the ImageButtons' XML layout

answered Feb 19 '14 at 12:31

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '12 at 01:53

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In your code use this:

ImageButton btn = new ImageButton(this);
btn.setImageResource(R.drawable.btn_close);
btn.setBackgroundResource(0);

answered Sep 26 '12 at 01:53

jlapoutre

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This worked for me, but another way that worked was: btn.setBackgroundColor(0x00000000); – rommex Jul 09 '17 at 21:32

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 14 '17 at 09:58

By this way you can set transparent background to ImageButton:

<ImageButton android:id="@+id/imagebutton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="@drawable/<imageresourcename>"
android:background="@null"></ImageButton>

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 08 '12 at 15:15

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I don't know if there is any method to do that, but you can paint completely transparent .png file and use method setBackGroundResource() or in XML using this : android:background

answered Feb 08 '12 at 15:15

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