How to display background image in text view

Question

can anybody tell how to display background image in a TextView in android?

Answer 1

If you are working with xmls you can add it as Praveen Chandrasekaran said doing:

android:background="@drawable/myResouce" 

Before that you have to put your image file inside the res/drawable folder.

You can also change it from the code doing:

  mTextView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.myResouce); 

Answer 2

add a android:background="@drawable/imagefile" attribute on your TextView tag. Before that you have to put your image file inside the res/drawable folder.