I am having trying to accomplish this kind of a design. It needs to stretch to accomodate difference screens but rather then stretching it should repeat the pattern, I think the picture is pretty self-explanatory. 9patch only wont cut it as it only stretches.
Thanks for your time
The simplest method to do what you want would be to use a shape drawable with the stroke element set on it to obtain that dash pattern.
You may be able to also do it with a layer-list drawable.
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There is the concept of rounded corners for views and drawables in Android, however, am working on an interface for a kids robot, and someone asked for curly borders - sort of like wavy (sine wave kind of thing). Now, how the heck can one achieve such a thing in either XML or Java - especially, without resorting to use of image overlays or backgrounds?
rounded corners aren't in fact rounded Views, its just a bit of transparency in corners. you can create some custom drawables/Bitmaps and set for your Views (as a background or use ImageView) or you can use custom programmatic drawing like HERE
Have tried to use images of that form and use them as background in a transparent container?
Hello fellow Android designers,
I am struggling right now to create xml tooltip that would look like the one on this picture:
Unfortunately it seems like a hell of a work. Till now I was only able to create a simple rounded rectangle like that:
Is it actually possible to create such a shape I have presented on the first photo using xml styling or should I try to create it programatically (which will probably take huge amount of time and creating border would be really hard)? Or maybe the simplest solution is the best and I should use partially transparent png image with the shape of my choosing?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
You can draw it using stretchable 9-patch drawable.
You can specify there which parts are fixed (the little knob on the left and corners) and which are stretchable (all other parts)
So I have this image set as the background of a seekbar. On different screens, the image gets skewed so much that it is quite horrible. I tried doing a 9 patch, but obviously there are several regions I would like to scale so 9 patch wasnt the best option. What I would like to acheive is, have the background stretched and leave the numbers proportional. The numbers tend to eith stretch too much or shrink too much.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
The simplest option here is probably to create a GradientDrawable to set as the background of your view. You can see from the docs that GradientDrawable can take an array of colors in its constructor, and it will draw all those colors evenly spaced across whatever size the enclosing view end up to be. This is the same element used to create <shape> drawables in XML, but if you instantiate it in Java code you can add more than just three colors to the gradient scale.
I am trying to create a drawable such as this in Android:
I don't think a nine patch will work because there is nowhere that can safety scale vertically. So next I tried a shape drawable but it does not support triangles.
I want to render this image on the fly so there are no artifacts. Also I want to be able to use it in a selector, so I need to be able to represent this image in xml. Maybe I need to extend some class to manually make the shape. If so how do I embed a tag in the xml to tell it where to render? Does anyone know where to start with this or have an example of something similar?
I have read the first 10 pages of hits on stack overflow and google and am not getting anywhere. Thanks very much for any help.
I think a 9-patch would work. For the vertical stretching on the left boundary, fill in the line from top to bottom.
In my app I have something similar in appearance to labels in GMail app UI. For those who may not know, they look like this (labels are these colorful bars):
In order to achieve similar effect I use nine-patch drawables - for each label I am creating a TextView and assign drawable to it. This is simple solution, but I don't like it. It's not elegant, it is quite slow as shown by profiler, and I just don't think it's the right way to do it.
I changed the design of the UI to make it more "ICS-y", so I removed rounded corners from the labels. And I started thinking how I could replace 9-patch solution. The most obvious thing is to use BackgroundColorSpan. But it has one, small drawback. I want my labels to have some padding. With drawables, it was easy to achieve. With spans, it's harder. To make horizontal padding, I can just add spaces at the beginning and at the end of the string. But how to make vertical padding larger? To clear things up, this is a screenshot of the label with BackgroundColorSpan:
I want to make the colored parts above and below the text larger. I think I should use some kind of MetricAffectingSpan, but I couldn't figure out which one. Or maybe I should write my own? Or, finally, maybe spans are just not able to fulfill my needs and I should stay with images or create a canvas and "manually" draw everything as in GMail app?
The easiest way to do this, and im pretty sure the GMAIL app is making use of it, are shapes.
Just create a custom shape, in your case a rectangle shape with rounded corners and a solid color, and assign this drawable then to the background property of your textview.
A shape is defined in xml.
You will assign it as follows:
<TextView
...
android:background="#drawable/my_awesome_shape" />