Scale Image to fill ImageView width and keep aspect ratio

Question

Without using any custom classes or libraries:

<ImageView
    android:id="@id/img"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:adjustViewBounds="true"
    android:scaleType="fitCenter" />

scaleType="fitCenter" (default when omitted)

• will make it as wide as the parent allows and up/down-scale as needed keeping aspect ratio.

scaleType="centerInside"

• if the intrinsic width of src is smaller than parent width
  will center the image horizontally
• if the intrinsic width of src is larger than parent width
  will make it as wide as the parent allows and down-scale keeping aspect ratio.

It doesn't matter if you use android:src or ImageView.setImage* methods and the key is probably the adjustViewBounds.

I like answer of arnefm but he made a small mistake (see comments) which I will try to correct:

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.ImageView;

/**
 * ImageView that keeps aspect ratio when scaled
 */
public class ScaleImageView extends ImageView {

  public ScaleImageView(Context context) {
    super(context);
  }

  public ScaleImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
  }

  public ScaleImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
  }

  @Override
  protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    try {
      Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
      if (drawable == null) {
        setMeasuredDimension(0, 0);
      } else {
        int measuredWidth = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
        int measuredHeight = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
        if (measuredHeight == 0 && measuredWidth == 0) { //Height and width set to wrap_content
          setMeasuredDimension(measuredWidth, measuredHeight);
        } else if (measuredHeight == 0) { //Height set to wrap_content
          int width = measuredWidth;
          int height = width *  drawable.getIntrinsicHeight() / drawable.getIntrinsicWidth();
          setMeasuredDimension(width, height);
        } else if (measuredWidth == 0){ //Width set to wrap_content
          int height = measuredHeight;
          int width = height * drawable.getIntrinsicWidth() / drawable.getIntrinsicHeight();
          setMeasuredDimension(width, height);
        } else { //Width and height are explicitly set (either to match_parent or to exact value)
          setMeasuredDimension(measuredWidth, measuredHeight);
        }
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }
  }

}

Thus your ImageView will be scaled properly and will have no dimension problems if (for instance) put inside of ScrollView

I had a similar problem once. I solved it by making a custom ImageView.

public class CustomImageView extends ImageView

Then override the onMeasure method of the imageview. I did something like this I believe:

    @Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    try {
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();

        if (drawable == null) {
            setMeasuredDimension(0, 0);
        } else {
            float imageSideRatio = (float)drawable.getIntrinsicWidth() / (float)drawable.getIntrinsicHeight();
            float viewSideRatio = (float)MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec) / (float)MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
            if (imageSideRatio >= viewSideRatio) {
                // Image is wider than the display (ratio)
                int width = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
                int height = (int)(width / imageSideRatio);
                setMeasuredDimension(width, height);
            } else {
                // Image is taller than the display (ratio)
                int height = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
                int width = (int)(height * imageSideRatio);
                setMeasuredDimension(width, height);
            }
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }

This will stretch the image to fit the screen while maintaining the aspect ratio.

Use android:scaleType="centerCrop".