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Questions tagged [background-drawable]

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Changing the background drawable of the searchview widget

I'm trying to change the drawable that sits in the Android actionbar searchview widget. Currently it looks like this: but I need to change the blue background drawable to a red colour. I've tried many things short of rolling my own search widget,…
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How to have a Fullscreen Background Image (with center-crop) that doesn't Resize

I'm trying to set a photo as the background of an Activity. I want the background to be a full screen image (no borders). As I want the image to fill the entire activity's background without stretching/squeezing (i.e. unproportional scalings for X…
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How to fix cut-off custom SearchView background in landscape?

I've followed the great answer for this question to make the SearchView widget in my ActionBar fit a custom theme. It works just fine for portrait mode, but in landscape the OS will shrink the height of the ActionBar to maximize content screen…
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How to change TextView's background color dynamically?

I have reffered this question and implemented circular background for TextView using circle.xml (in res/drawable) and setting it as android:background="@drawable/circle" for TextView. But what I need is , I need to set the background color…
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Rounded corners drawable via code

I have a drawable that will change colors sometimes, but it must ALWAYS have rounded corners. It's for a UI library, so I can't know what colors will it have. XML is not an option, I have to achieve this with pure java. Is there a way to achieve…
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how can I set drawable background just to a number string into another string in android?

is there any way to set background (xml circular drawable) to a number or any string between another string ? I have (for example) this text in the textView (copied from stackoverflow): You are setting the text on bookDisp(I guess that this is the…
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Use different style for same item for different activity in android studio (Please read description)

I am working on a project wherein I want to use BottomSheetDialog in different activities. But for different activities I want the Dialog to have diffrent background drawable. I have set the background drawable in themes.xml but that makes the…
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android widgetProvider : set backgroundDrawable for button

I am trying to set background for button (a homeScreen Widget) through a configuration activity. background color is accepted from user (from a JSON) using that color, 2 GradientDrawables are prepared and added in StateListDrawable. I want to set…
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Performance issue while changing Background of a Relative layout Dynamically

I am trying to create a screen where i can select multiple images from SDCard and load them in to ViewPager & Gridlayout like how in WhatsApp Sending Multiple images (like in the below screen shot). I am able to achieve like in the screen shot by…
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Buttons text is not aligned any more after changing the BackgroundDrawable

i am changing my buttons' backgroundDrawable programaticaly: myButton.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.card_button_blue)); After changing the background, the text in the button is not aligned any more like it was before…
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Import both R (android.R and .R)

I'm using custom background in my app. What i'm looking for is how to get default drawable from android.R. This because if a user select white or dark background, i don't wanna use a custom image, but use for ex:…
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How to resize image height based on the parent layout content height dynamically?

I have a parent layout with android:layout_height="wrap_content" and in my class code, it should set the layout background from a specific image, but the image height is bigger than the content height. I wanted to resize the image height of the…
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Do SetBackgroundDrawable load image in memory?

i'm making an Android application, and i had some problem in report with "out of memory exception", after many search on the net, I found that android:background was loading background image in memory. so i'll remove all my "android:background"…
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