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saman0suke
saman0suke

Reputation: 762

How do I resize a checkbox drawable to fit correctly?

I'm developing an app in Android, and since I'm using a dark background, the checkboxes are not visible so I need to use a drawable, I have created a 45 x 45 px image, if I test it in a Nexus 5, the image looks big, and it looks bigger in a lower resolution phone, this is the output:

[1]: https://i.sstatic.net/UjBDV.png

What's the recommended size for a drawable checkbox? how can I fit it accordingly to different resolutiones? thank you!

EDIT:

Thanks to the suggestions I ended up using a 9patch image, however, I want to double check if my assumption is correct, since I need to resize the whole checkbox, the boundaries should be on the edges of the images right? I'm not selecting the transparent area:

enter image description here

Would that be ok? I already tested it in a Nexus 5 and in an emulator (320 x 480), and it looks ok, just double checking, thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 712

Answers (1)

Niko
Niko

Reputation: 8163

Here is information about sizes in Android: http://developer.android.com/design/style/metrics-grids.html

So good size is about 32dp for CheckBox and you can make the image 9-patch. So minimum pixel size gets automatically scaled to fit and look good.

For pixel sizes check this: http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html

Upvotes: 1

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