How Show the Letter with the Circle Android

Question

I follow this solution to make a circular Imagen with the First letter (Such as Gmail Contacts)

but i don't know how visualize that image...

I'm use a EditText but it doesn't work.

Someone can help me.

Answer 1

This link will surely solve your purpose and you will be able to understand the working too.

OR

You can simply do like this (only one color will be applied to all of the title/initial list backgrounds with this code but you can surely customize it):

circle.xml in the drawable folder of the project

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:shape="oval">
        <solid android:color="@color/color_accent" />
</shape>

then in your layout(xml) code just add a TextView like this :

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/title"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/circle"
    android:gravity="center_vertical" />

and then set the title TextView with initial element of the sentence or list like : title.setText(dataList.get(i).charAt(0)).