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Keep ImageView on the right size of the text and yet prevent long text to push it out of view?

The situation is the same no matter if I use LinearLayout or RelativeLayout. I think this is a old Android XMl bug, but I have no idea why it still exists.
Namely, in a layout where an ImageView is on the right side of a TextView can disappear from the screen when text becomes too long. It simply pushes it off the screen. I must NOT make TextView single line.
Here is the XML.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="some long text blahblahblahblahblah"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textSize="17sp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/key"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
I cannot use layout_weight attribute as image will then stick to the right side of the screen. It HAS to be on the right side of the text.
Anyone has any ideas how to solve this bug?
Check images when the text is short and long. On the 2nd image the text is long and the image is being pushed away from the screen.

You can achieve your task, if you use the layout_weight properly. Please refer the code below:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. As you can see it easily handles the long length of the text"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textSize="17sp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher"
/>
</LinearLayout>
The output for long text:
The output for short text:
EDIT:
This works because of the layout whose width is set as wrap_content. If it were match_parent then in all cases, all the extra space would have been given to TextView because of it's layout_weight but since the parent is wrap_content, there is no extra space for the TextView to fill when the text is small. But when the text is large, the weight property is applied to the TextView but since there is no layout_weight for the ImageView hence, it takes only the amount of space it has to.

Set
android:layout_marginRight="30dp"
for the TextView
and
android:layout_marginLeft="-20dp"
for the ImageView
You can change the values depending on your needs.
But, if the image can have different sizes, you will have to set margins programmatically.

there is 2 solutions for these
either set the image as a drawableRight to the textview
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. As you can see it easily handles the long length of the text"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textSize="17sp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:drawableRight="#drawable/ic_launcher"
/>
or
alignt the image to right and make textview toleft of the image

Android button background image size

I created a personal keyboard and set the background image to the one of the buttons, but after that button size (with my background) is different from one another.
<Button
android:id="#+id/buttonShift"
android:paddingTop="0dip"
android:textSize="22sp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:textStyle="bold" />
Set background:
<Button
android:id="#+id/buttonShift"
android:background="#drawable/sym_keyboard_shift_off"
android:paddingTop="0dip"
android:textSize="22sp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:textStyle="bold" />
Please, see the screen of the buttons
Before:
After:
Image size: 106x68

I would advise you to:
Change your drawable a bit - remove the orange rectangle background, keep only the arrow with transparent background (from now on I will use the name shift_off_arrow as a name of described drawable). The transparent background should be only as big as it is needed to keep the whole arrow. Not bigger.
Define a new color - the color of your orange background (from this moment I will assume you have defined it and I will be using name orange_background)
Use ImageButton instead of Button (just like satnam singh and Hamid Shatu said in a comments to your question)
Use code like this (manipulate with all paddings to get the size of the arrow exactly like you want):
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/buttonShift"
android:background="#color/orange_background"
android:src="#drawable/shift_off_arrow"
android:paddingTop="0dip"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />

android ImageButton do not stretch image

How can I prevent the ImageButton from stretching the image?
Using this snippet:
<ImageButton
android:src="#drawable/prediction"
android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:scaleType="centerInside"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:contentDescription="some description"
android:text="#string/predict"
local:MvxBind="Click ExecuteQueryCmd" />
I get the following effect:
Image is 64x64 png.
All I want is for the ImageButton to respect native width and length, hence resolution, of the image it is being assigned. Recommendations based on a similar post is to use a Button, set its background to an image then use custom selectors but this sounds like a hack. Or is this the proper way to do this?

It work for me with
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:contentDescription="some description"
android:scaleType="centerInside"
android:src="#drawable/ci_icon"
android:text="#string/predict"
local:MvxBind="Click ExecuteQueryCmd" />
Put your image in android:src attribute

Set the width of the ImageButtons to fill_parent and use scaletype fitStart for the images that hug the left margin, and fitEnd for the ones on the right. Should do the trick, at least as far as your example image goes. You may have some spacing issues if the proportional width of the images exceed the screen width, but it should work for you.

Do this:
<ImageButton
android:src="#drawable/prediction"
android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:contentDescription="some description"
android:text="#string/predict"
local:MvxBind="Click ExecuteQueryCmd" />

Set custom width height image drawable in Android button

This is what I want to do: customize the image size because it's just a little too big.
I am creating an Android application and in a button, I have the image and text. Now I want to customize the size of the image to fit on the screen. However, I have a difficulty manipulating the image. If I adjust the width and height, it is of the button's. I wanted to adjust the image size. Is this possible?
Here's the code snippet of the button:
<Button
android:id="#+id/marketBtn"
style="?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#drawable/unselected_button"
android:drawableTop="#drawable/market_icon_0"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingBottom="5dp"
android:paddingLeft="1dp"
android:paddingRight="1dp"
android:paddingTop="5dp"
android:text="#string/task_bar_lbl_market"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:textSize="10sp" />
Do you have any idea how to do it? Or what are the possible approaches to fulfill this task?

Use nine-patch.
you can set stretchable area and padding area.
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/draw9patch.html

Placing text view over an image view using FrameLayout

Below is how I have designed my xml. Now what I am trying to fit a textview inside the white box shown below. But am being restricted by FrameLayout (at least I think so) that I need to hard code values to make the text view fit in the middle or some where inside the white box. I cannot use Relative or other layouts for this purpose as I have understood by my trials as this whole is a single image.
Here is my layout,
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="visible" android:layout_marginTop="60dip"
android:layout_gravity="center" android:id="#+id/xxx">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/calloutquizImage"
android:background="#drawable/callout" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:scaleType="fitCenter" />
<ImageView android:id="#+id/triviaImage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/calloutquizImage" android:layout_gravity="left"
android:src="#drawable/trivia" android:background="#drawable/trivia"
android:layout_marginTop="50dip" android:layout_marginLeft="85dip"></ImageView>
<TextView android:text="TextView" android:id="#+id/triviAnswerText"
android:layout_marginTop="125dip" android:layout_marginLeft="85dip"
android:layout_gravity="left" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textColor="#000000"
android:typeface="sans"></TextView>
<ImageButton android:id="#+id/triviaanswercloseButton"
android:src="#drawable/closebtn" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="#drawable/closebtn"
android:layout_marginRight="8dip" android:layout_marginTop="43dip"
android:layout_gravity="right" android:onClick="triviaanswerClose"></ImageButton>
<ImageView android:id="#+id/buttontoclose"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:visibility="visible" android:onClick="triviaanswerClose"
android:layout_marginTop="50dip" android:layout_marginLeft="75dip"
android:layout_width="230dip" android:layout_height="170dip"></ImageView>
</FrameLayout>
Because of this the text view looks in different positions in various handsets.
Any guesses what can be done for this instead?
Below is my image :

I think you are not doing the right thing. If you want a text to appear inside a white box (or even resize it, if there is to many text to fit to it) - you can still avoid any layouts ad do it with only one TextView.
Please have a look what is NinePatch image in Android:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/NinePatch.html
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/draw9patch.html - drawing tools
So basically you will need only 1 textView and your image, properly converted to 9-patch with 2nd link. (Basically - just add a few black pixels on image border).
No just set this 9-patch as a background of textView. It will place text right where you need, and will shrink white box if you'll define so in 9-patch.
UPD:
Please find the resulting screenshot:
As you can see, textView not handles
WhiteBox" itself, filling it with text and resizing the box if necessary.
Here is how to make it work:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/first"
android:background="#drawable/back"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Manymanymany text
Manymanymany text
Manymanymany text
Manymanymany text
Manymanymany text
Manymanymany text" />
<TextView
android:layout_below="#+id/first"
android:background="#drawable/back"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Not so many text" />
</RelativeLayout>
And here is your image, converted to 9patch. Just place it to "drawable/" folder. Note: it MUST have "back.9.png" name.
For details of how 9patch works you can check links above. The main idea: by making black dots on left and top border - you specify which part of the image will be stretched when image must be upscaled. By making dots on right/bottom side you tell the View where to place the content. In our case content is a text of the TextView.
Hope it helps, good luck

I think you can use a RelativeLayout within the FrameLayout for the ImageView and the TextView, and by using the parameters, you can navigate the TextView to the white box. Refer to the LayoutParams documentation for details.
for eg. you can add the ImageView block first and then the TextView, so that the TextView will lay over the ImageView, and by using align bottom, and specifying top margin with a negative value, you can make the TextView go over the image. Or rather, if you are using eclipse, you can directly move the text view in the graphic layout.
<FrameLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/xxx"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="0dp"
android:visibility="visible" >
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margintop="0dp" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/user2" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/Textviewtitle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/hello_world"
android:layout_below="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_marginTop="-10dp"
app:context=".TestActivity" />
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
Similar to above, you can specify margin left and right to properly position your TextView as you want. Check with graphic layout for feedback to know the correct position.
Please reply if this helped.
Use your images and values for the height and width. I just tried for testing.