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Android - Place image in relativeLayout with proper size

I am working on a android card view. Here is the code that I have now:
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dip"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="#drawable/drawable_card_bg">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/photo"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/test_img" />
....
and the UI looks like:
However this is not what I am looking for. I want the image to be placed on top of the card, with the top, right, left margins to be 10dip from the background card boarder.
Meanwhile, I want to keep the ratio of the image, so don't want to hard-code the width/height of the image view. I want the image width to fit the width of the background card, and the height should be adjusted according to the width.
How should I change the layout parameters to achieve this?
Thank you

Add android:adjustViewBounds="true" to your ImageView in xml in order to let the ImageView adjust its bounds.

It's very easy......... please do this thing. Replace your imageview code using this one
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/photo"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="#drawable/test_img" />
If my answer will help you then support this.
Thanks!!!

Overlay over an ImageView on Android

So I have a list of images that come from the web, I don't know which color are they and I want to place a text over the ImageView.
My idea is to place the ImageView, an image overlay with transparency gradient over that ImageView and the text above it. I want to mimic this behaviour:
Is there anyway to do this via XML?

When you write the XML for your list items which get inflated in the getView(...) of whatever ListAdapter you've written you can surely do this.
Something like this for the list item:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="320dp"
android:layout_height="240dp"
android:background="#ACACAC"/>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="320dp"
android:layout_height="240dp"
android:background="#drawable/gradient">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Here is your text"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Then you create that drawable/gradient. For that you can recycle the answer from here.

Thanks to adityajones I managed to get there :)
So although this is my right answer, I'll mark his as the correct one!
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="#drawable/image" />
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:background="#drawable/gradient_image" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_margin="6dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="18dp"
android:shadowColor="#000"
android:shadowRadius="7.0"
android:text="This is some random text"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="22sp" />
</RelativeLayout>

I'd use a FrameLayout or RelativeLayout. The first View you add to either should be the background ImageView, then obviously you'll need some TextViews and Other ImageViews [or Buttons, or ImageButtons, etc]
Seems like a reasonable layout: a background image, and then one additional view in each corner.
For the gradient, you'll probably want a separate Layout/View at the bottom with a gradient drawable as the background, although I can imagine you might be able to get away with setting the background of one of your TextViews as the gradient.

You do not have to use a gradient drawable file or set it in your xml..
you can do this pragmatically using GradientDrawable Class as explained in this related Question (Create a radial gradient programmatically) then set it as a background for a layout that covers your ImageView, this gives you ability to use different colors and orientations

How to make image fill RelativeLayout background without stretching

In my Android project, I am not quite sure how to make my background image fill the entirety of the RelativeLayout root element in XML, which is the size of the screen. I want to be sure that this works for all aspect ratios, so the image will clip vertically or horizontally as necessary. Does someone know how to do this easily? I've only seen questions regarding ImageViews and Buttons, but not really generic Views.
My XML file currently:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/enclosing_rl"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background"
android:fitsSystemWindows="false">
<!-- Other elements -->
</RelativeLayout>

Other than turning your image into a nine patch I don't think this is possible. What you could do instead is-
Add an ImageView as the first view in your RelativeLayout.
Set layout_centerInParent to true.
Have the layout_width and layout_height set to match_parent.
Then set scaleType to centerCrop.
That will make sure the image fills the screen without any distortion, but depending on screen size/orientation either some of the top/bottom or left/right of the image may be cut off.
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="#drawable/background" />
Any other views in the RelativeLayout will appear on top of the ImageView, as long as it is the first view in the RelativeLayout (when you are in the xml).

Create a bitmap drawable XML resource in your res/drawable folder:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="#drawable/background"
android:tileMode="repeat" />
Use that drawable as background instead of #drawable/background

according to this answer If you want your ImageView fill your RelativeLayout,use align parameters for ImageView.
you can put all of your views to a LinearLayout and set align parameter to your background ImageView:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/my_background"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/my_views"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/my_views"
/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/my_views"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<!-- stuff -->
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Its smart and 100% working answer is to set the property scaleType of image view !
android:scaleType="fitCenter"

Android - Background at bottom

I should like to have an android app which has its background image on the bottom of the view.
Hopefully this could be achieved by only using XML.
My background image (bg.png) is located at the folder "res/drawable-mdpi".
The XML code is now:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/bg"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="0dip" />
</LinearLayout>
But this is stretching the whole image over the whole page. I only want it stretched in horizontal direction.
The height has to be in proportion with the (stretched) width.
And this image has to be the background of a view/layout, I want to keep using the layout and add items/objects to it.
I hope someone could help me with this, I've been looking on the internet for it for a few hours and I couldn't find anything more helpful then I have now.
Thanks in advance,
Dennis

Firstly Change your LinearLayout to a RelativeLayout (android:layout_alignParentBottom only works with RelativeLayout).
Secondly use android:src="#drawable/bg" on your ImageView (not background)

if you really want to use the LinearLayout, you can try adding this attribute to your imageview android:layout_gravity="bottom"

Android draws only part of ImageView

I want to draw ImageView with text over a relative layout with 9patch background.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/splash_last" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:src="#drawable/appnameimg" >
</ImageView>
</RelativeLayout>
In editor i have this:
On the phone :
It seems that I have just 3 character from string.
Where is my mistake?
UPD
there background and text image. Can it be because of "bad" 9patch?
link to images

I am able to reproduce the issue. It looks like the way you are trying to define the 9 patch is the issue. You want one corner to be un-stretchable which is not possible. According to this doc, the area to be stretched is intersection of left and top one pixel black lines. Using that definition it is not possible to define corner as un-stretchable. If I remove the 9 patch the both images looks fine.

You need to define how your image will scale inside of the ImageView container.
Set android:scaleType="fitCenter" in your XML to center the image in the list view and fit it inside of the container.
Ex.
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView2"
android:scaleType="fitCenter"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:src="#drawable/appnameimg" >
</ImageView>
or one of the other options that might suit you better from here
ImageView.ScaleType