Android Activity Background Image

Question

How do I use a background image in an Activity theme/style?

If I do this using a colour:

<style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">     <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/custom_theme_color</item> </style> 

It works correctly, but if I replace the line with:

<item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/splash_image</item> 

The image displays correctly, but all the content is squished into a tiny block in the top left corner of the screen. The shadow underneath the status bar is also cut off or messed.

I am using Mono for Android and the image is a valid nine-patch png.

Answer 1

I also don't use themes, so in the layout of the activity I would add

android:background="@drawable/splash_image" 

Answer 2

My solution was change the android:windowBackground to android:background.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <resources>   <style name="Theme.Splash" parent="android:Theme">     <item name="android:background">@drawable/splash</item>     <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>   </style> </resources>