Android crop background

Question

I have a LinearLayout with width set to fill_parent and height to wrap_content. Now I want to give it a background from a png file, but doing it in a traditional way causes the LinearLayout to resize in order to show the whole background instead of cropping the additional part.

How can I set the background of LinearLayout so it won't resize?

Thanks

Answer 1

It appears that such thing is achievable only using the ImageView and setting the scaleType parameter accordingly. A quick workaround is to use FrameLayout and put the ImageView under another layout with transparent background.

Code:

<FrameLayout      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent">      <ImageView         android:id="@+id/imageView1"         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="match_parent"         android:scaleType="centerCrop"         android:src="@drawable/background" />  </FrameLayout>