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Android Game development - Imageview automatically shrinks at screen edge

I have a bunch of dynamically created ImageViews representing different objects in a game, which is working fine. However if any Image reaches the edge of the screen, it shrinks. Looks like android is attempting to create a smooth transition, but this is not wanted.
I found another thread with the same issue here: Animation Drawable gets automatically shrinks at the corners ?, however his solution does not work for me, it only enhances the issue as it starts shrinking once the margin hits the screen edge.
This is my code:
final LayoutParams _updated_params = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
_updated_params.setMargins((int)m_x, (int)m_y, 0, 0);
m_image.setLayoutParams(_updated_params);</code>
Where m_x/m_y is the absolute position of the image and m_image is an ImageView instance.
Does anyone know how I can turn off this automatic resizing?

Add setScaleType
m_image.setScaleType(ScaleType.MATRIX);

Use setScaleType
m_image.setScaleType(ScaleType.FIT_XY);

Can android padding be made to be not clickable?

EDIT: Answer found through Emil's comments. Code ended up like this:
FrameLayout.LayoutParams params = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(
FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
params.setMargins(left, top, right, bottom);
view.setLayoutParams(params);
Thanks all :D
I'm currently writing an Android application and I have a dynamically created tree which displays ImageView elements within it. However, to arrange these images I've used padding left to line them up correctly, dynamically changing how the padding is calculated so that everything turns out evenly. However when I do this, the padding covers up some of the images to the left, and even though you can see the images behind this padding, when you click on that image, it will evaluate the image who's padding is being used (the furthest left element). I'm basically wondering if there is a way to programatically set something that does what padding does to images but isn't clickable? Margins would make sense, but you cannot set margins on ImageViews.
The tree set up is like this:
-----A-----
--B--C--D--
-E-F----G--
Imagine every letter is an ImageView, dynamically placed with padding. But if I click on B or C, D's code will be evaluated because it's left padding covers B and C. The same goes for E or F, click those, and G will be evaluated. I cannot figure out a different way to place these ImageViews. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Consider replacing your padding with layout_margin property. that way the area that separates the padded view is not considered as part of the view but ratter as part of the layout it sits in.
So use
android:layout_margin="10dp"
or:
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
for your needs.

move the screen content to the left outside the screen android

is there a way to move the whole screen content outside the screen bounds, with titlebar and all, on the left for example, i tried
content = ((LinearLayout) act.findViewById(android.R.id.content)
.getParent());
to get the screen content and add a margin to it
FrameLayout.LayoutParams pr = (android.widget.FrameLayout.LayoutParams) content
.getLayoutParams();
pr.rightMargin = xOffset;
content.setLayoutParams(pr);
but it doesnt work, the margin appears but the content is not moved just resized to fit the screen, anyone know how to do this the simple way?

you can set the margin in negative(-) values.
for example if your want the layout to move upper use this:
android:marginTop = "-50dip or more u can put"

Are you trying to flip between views? As in, moving that layout off the screen to show another one? If so you should look at using a widget called ViewFlipper which will do exactly as you need. It can also be animated etc.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ViewFlipper.html

How can avoid text from being cut off on a button?

I am customizing a button in Android changing its background (using a 9patch png file) and changing its font typeface. I put the button in a RelativeLayout since I need precise positioning and dimensioning of this item in a custom layout. I am doing all this programmatically (from creation to setting and display).
I found this question with the same problem, but the solution will not work for me. I used
continueBtn.setPadding(0,0,0,0);
but the graphical output remains the same. More than half the text is cut off in the view.
An excerpt of the code I am using is the following:
Button continueBtn = new Button(getContext());
p = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(width, 45);
p.addRule(CENTER_HORIZONTAL);
continueBtn.setLayoutParams(p);
continueBtn.setTypeface(...);
continueBtn.setTextSize(14);
outerLayout.addView(continueBtn);
continueBtn.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);
No matter where I put the setPadding method call, things won't change.
What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

You are setting a constant height for the button of 45 (pixels, I guess). However, apparently the text you are trying to put in it is taller than the amount of space android will let you use. Make your button taller (by changing the LayoutParams) and it will fit without cutting off. Alternately, use a smaller text size so the text will be shorter and fit.

How to position a view off-screen so that it can be Animated to move on-screen?

I have a RelativeLayout filling the screen and a couple of ImageView positioned on it using LayoutParams margins. These ImageView are animated in different ways, and in one case I want an image to "fly in" to the screen from the right.
Unfortunately, if I set leftMargin for that ImageView greater than the width of the screen, it does not appear (or appears cropped if it partially visible at the start of animation).
I tried setting width and height of RelativeLayout to be bigger than screen size - it works, but only partially: if the image is positioned completely off-screen, it does not work, and if the image is partially visible, it is not cropped, but that works only for right and bottom sides.
So, my question is this: how to position several ImageViews on and off the screen so that I can animate them using Animation?

In the end, I used a trick: I combined AnimationDrawable and view animation. I did the following (assuming that the animation has to run T milliseconds):
Position that ImageView on-screen.
Set as its background an AnimationDrawable with following frames:
empty Drawable: 1ms,
normal Drawable: Tms.
Change view's animation to this:
jump to off-screen position (translation with duration=1ms),
do normal animation.

This is probably a good place to start looking for those who would use Fixpoint's solution.
Android — How to position View off-screen?