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Dennis Winter
Dennis Winter

Reputation: 2037

How to nicely scale a background image of a TextView for Android

I'm battleing with extending a TextView for my Android app. I'd like to create "bubbles" to display text messages in a conversation, similar to the native iPhone SMS conversations.

Is there a way to implement the resizing of a background image without just stretching it? I'd like to have a single background image that keeps it's corners but get stretched only in defined areas. I think this should be possible because I've seen it in a SMS app, but I wonder how to implement that.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4289

Answers (1)

Cheryl Simon
Cheryl Simon

Reputation: 46844

What you are looking for is a 9.patch image. See draw 9 patch documentation.

Upvotes: 5

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