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Adding background to button breaks sizing

I have an icon I would like to scale down to 48dp and use as a button (no background). However, adding the android:background attribute (to make the background transparent) seems to break the sizing I have applied to the button and it displays at its full size:
Desired size but with ugly background:
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/composition_send"
android:layout_width="48dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:scaleType="fitCenter"
android:src="#drawable/ic_send_black_48dp"/>
Full (wrong) size, but with no background (desired):
<ImageButton
...
android:background="?android:selectableItemBackground"/>
Why does adding that one line ruin the sizing?

try to add
android:src="#drawable/ic_send_black_48dp
android:backgroundTint="#0000"
to ImageButton, it will make the background transparent and then you can set the image on it.

When you don't set the background property for the Imagebutton, the Imagebutton will use the default Imagebutton background of Android. And this background contains the padding so your image is smaller.
So when you set the background for Imagebutton by a color or resource that doesn't contain padding, your image will look larger
You can find the default background of the Imagebutton and another View in
..\Android\sdk\platforms\android-23\data\res\drawable\
(Some resource in this is not public)
For example
If you compile your project with API 23, the default background of ImageButton is btn_default_material
<ImageButton
...
android:background="#android:drawable/btn_default_material"
android:src="#drawable/ic_send_black_48dp"/>
<ImageButton
...
android:src="#drawable/ic_send_black_48dp"/>
So you set the android:background="#android:drawable/btn_default_material" or don't use background property, 2 ImageButton will look same (note: btn_default_material is not public for use)
Hope this help

If you don't want that ugly background in imagebutton,then you can use an imageview as button and set onClickListener on it. It will behave like a button.
This Link will be helpful to you.

How to change Floating Action button shadow colour

I want to change Floating Action button shadow colour from black/grey to colorprimary/custom color of shadow ** shadow example like below image with **center blue FAB button with light blue shadow not grey shadow. But we can change the FAB button background color. But as you can see in image there is blue shadow of FAB button.I want to achive that thing.

try this :: app:backgroundTint="#color/colorAccentGrey"
where colorAccentGrey = YourColor
and put xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" at the beginning of the XML if you forggt,
and for Remove shadow :: app:elevation="0dp"
Hope this will help you.. :)

I think you have 2 options:
as #Uttam said, change the elevation of the FAB widget
to make a custom design and embed it as an image in your layout as shown here http://androidgifts.com/android-material-design-floating-action-button-tutorial/

None of the answer worked for me. So i worked this. anyhow it will give shadow like effect that enough for me
<com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.FloatingActionButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_add_black"
app:elevation="0dp" // disable outside shawdow
app:borderWidth="30dp" // make borderwidth to 25dp or height of fab
app:backgroundTint="#00E5FF" // now you will see only this color with shawdow
android:backgroundTint="#00E5FF" // since border is 30dp u ll not see this color and if you want to check reduce border width to 25dp then ull see this color in center as a small dot.
/>

A simple solution is to remove the stroke(border-width), the default value is 0.5dp change it to 0dp, that is
app:borderWidth="0dp"
Refer Regular and mini FAB key properties in Material Design documentation!
Link - https://material.io/components/buttons-floating-action-button/android

Android :Button drawable Top

I want to create metro UI, so I did like in the picture But the problem is the position of the icons, they are in the top of the button, and I don't think it's aesthetic interface. I inserted the icons in the drawable Top in the button. Well how can make the a little bit in the middle.

You have to set the android:paddingTop and android:paddingBottom eqaully. Just don't copy and paste 10dp as the value of the padding. Value depends on the size of your button. Refer to below:
<Button
android:id="#+id/find_teacher"
style="#style/page_button"
android:drawableTop="#drawable/ic_search_light"
android:text="#string/find_teacher"
android:paddingTop="10dp"
android:paddingBottom="10dp"/>
This is the output:

I can remember 2 options:
top padding
gravity
You might wan't to check the layout documentation

The android:src property of ImageView doesn't support .9.png file?

I need to draw some divider line with some background image. I tried the ImageView control with the image as the value of android:src, but it didn't work. So I replaced the ImageView with a TextView with no text inside and specified the background image as its background. It indeed worked. Is there any better solution besides using a TextView?

Why not use the View Widget?
<View
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:background="#drawable/fixed_divider_horizontal_bright" >
</View>
NOTE: The dot you see right above this, is a 9-patch image (used in the code snippet). ;-)

i always just use a View and set the backgound.

I don't exactly understand your need. If you want use the ImageView as a divider, you can try this attribute android:scaleType="fitXY"

Any way to remove the grey background from ImageButtons?

I have an ImageButton and I'd like to remove the ugly (IMHO) background that surrounds the Image. I could just add an ImageView, but they're very hard to get set perfectly in a Layout like the grey one pictured. [gravity "Center" doesn't make it go to the middle, just centers it Vertically.)
So any way to remove that?

Just use android:background="#0000"
(#0000 same with #00000000)
or
ImageButton imageButton = new ImageButton(this);
imageButton.setBackgroundDrawable(null);

The default background is not transparent.
So, just add the transparent color "#00000000" as you background, then you could solve it.
p.s. #00000000 is the transparent color
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/imageButton1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/icon"
android:background="#00000000"
/>

You can keep the square box and just change its color like this:
android:backgroundTint="#color/colorPrimary"
works beautifully

I'm having the same problem but now it has been solved. If you are using "android:background="#null" it will resulted of no background at all and no button pressed animation will be appeared to the user.
Just adding this line of code to make an image button become flashing upon clicked. This is the proper way to alert the user an image button has been clicked.
"android:background="?android:selectableItemBackground"

just useandroid:background="#null" in your xml

if you set the
android:background
instead of
android:src
it should overwrite the gray background

Yeah. If you drag ImageButton that will usually ask for ImageSource. But the ImageSource(android:src) doesn't remove the gray background. It is an image that should be on top of background:
Instead of that try android:background in layout XML.

please use the Draw 9-patch format for the image b'use it is provided by SDK
1. From a terminal, launch the draw9patch application from your SDK /tools directory.
2. Drag your PNG image into the Draw 9-patch window (or File > Open 9-patch... to locate the file). Your workspace will now open.
The left pane is your drawing area, in which you can edit the lines for the stretchable patches and content area. The right pane is the preview area, where you can preview your graphic when stretched.
3. Click within the 1-pixel perimeter to draw the lines that define the stretchable patches and (optional) content area. Right-click (or hold Shift and click, on Mac) to erase previously drawn lines.
4. When done, select File > Save 9-patch...
Your image will be saved with the .9.png file name.

Use like this
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:src="#drawable/icon"

All proposed solutions remove the ripple animation (on tap)
Settings background tint mode to 'add' will remove the background and keep ripple animation:
android:backgroundTintMode="add"

If using Xamarin Forms it can be done like this in the xaml view. Set background to transparent.
<ImageButton BackgroundColor="Transparent"