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How to create a Cylindrical design pattern like this in XmL in android

I have three images bottom cap, Cyclinder and top head. I can't align them as in my image. I need some help for doing this thing but in vain. Here is the Image.
I'm trying to do this thing in this way. Here is the code.
<?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"
android:orientation="vertical">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/cap_cylinder"
android:id="#+id/imageView" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/blue_cylinder"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_alignEnd="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_marginBottom="39dp" />
<ImageView
android:src="#drawable/blue_cap_cylinder"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Please help me to do this. I just need a single complete design implementation.

Are you working with a graphic designer who provides these images? They need to provide you with a nine-patch image file. Show them this:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html#nine-patch
This is what you will use for the "stretchable" column image.
So say you have one bitmap for the base, and a nine-patch bitmap for the stretchable column. Then you create a LayerDrawable in XML that contains a ScaleDrawable that scales the column to the correct height.
base_and_column.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/base"
android:gravity="bottom">
<bitmap android:src="#drawable/base"/>
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/column"
android:gravity="bottom|center_vertical">
<scale android:scaleWidth="100%">
<nine-patch android:src="#drawable/column"/>
</scale>
</item>
</layer-list>
Now you can use this drawable as a background, and you don't even need an ImageView:
<View
android:layout_width="120dp"
android:layout_height="400dp"
android:background="#drawable/base_and_column"
To set the size, you just set the level of the background drawable:
// drawable levels go from 0 to 10000
columnView.getBackgroundDrawable().setLevel(percent * 100);
For the daily/weekly/monthly text, you can use a FrameLayout to overlay a TextView on top of your column view.
You can have three different drawables one for each color, or you could use Drawable.setColorFilter() to take a neutral-colored column and tint it blue, green, or orange:
Drawable column = ((LayerDrawable) columnView.getBackgroundDrawable()).findDrawableByLayerId(R.id.column);
column.setColorFilter(backgroundColor, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

Bitmap gravity set to center not filling the screen even though the image is big enough

I have a RelativeLayout in my Android project. This has it's background set to a Bitmap:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:gravity="center"
android:src="#drawable/splash2" />
splash2 is a PNG image sized 2560x1440 pixels. I haven't set the background of the layout directly to the image, because the default scale mode (or gravity) is fill which stretches the image to fit the screen. With center it should take correct size image from the center and show it unscaled. In case of a vertical 1080x1920 screen, it should take that big piece and center it in the layout.
However, I have a problem. The image is bigger than any screen out in the market today. Still, with my Nexus 7, which has a 1920x1080 screen, it has borders around the image. The layout is set to full screen. The image is shrinked vertically.
How do I fix this?

You can use android:gravity="fill" to cover vertical & horizontal direction

For splash image try gravity="center|fill"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#android:color/black" />
<item>
<bitmap
android:gravity="center|fill"
android:src="#drawable/fondo" />
</item>
</layer-list>

ImageView's scale type centerCrop was what I wanted. Unfortunately I couldn't specify this property for bitmaps. I changed my splash screen layout to FrameLayout and added an ImageView and TextView overlapping each other. This way I was able to achieve what I wanted.
<FrameLayout 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"
tools:context=".SplashScreen"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/splash2"
android:scaleType="centerCrop" />
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/roadSignName"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:background="#FFF"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
android:padding="10dp"
android:text="My program"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="40sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>

Try adding this to the bitmap:
android:gravity="fill_vertical"
This should fix it.
P.S. Sorry for the first answer, I edited it now.

How do i place a background on an image inside a relativelayout?

NOTE: I have ended up reporting this as a bug to the android project here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39159 Please also have a look at the accepted bounty answer, the solution is, unfortunately, to use an absolute (ie specifiying 'dp's rather than 'wrap_content' etc) layout to fix the issue.
I'm getting some VERY strange behaviour when placing a background on an image. I have simplified this down quite heavily to demonstrate the issue to you. What im doing is placing an image in a relativelayout, and also using a background. It seems that giving the relativelayout a padding is causing the background of the image to be missdrawn. Wrap_content seems to be messing up.
Firstly, here is the code that demonstrates the problem. Note that the same behaviour is seen without using a linearlayout and just giving the imageview a background, but this really demonstrates the problem better.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:padding="5dp" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/black_bg" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="#drawable/red_rectangle" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
Here is the black_bg xml file:
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#FF000000"/>
</shape>
Here is red_rectangle:
NOTE that this is a reference image, to demonstrate the problem. my actual image has detail, and so cannot be a .9.png
And here is a screenshot of the problem:
You can see that the image width is less than the linearlayout, despite the linearlayout having a width set to "wrap_content". If I set the relativelayout padding to 0dp, this problem dissapears.
This is hopefully a fairly well contained set of resource I'm providing here, so people can try it out themselves if they wish.
For reference, I am using this to provide a border around the image, so I could set the linearlayout (or the image itself) to have a padding, the problem still persists in that case.
EDIT: It appears I probably need a little more context around this, as answers are focussing round how to provide this border. Here is a screenshot of a more contextual layout. I didnt want to include this in the first place as it adds more confusion to the problem:
The FIRST 5dp padding you see is for the content of this entire item (the relativelayout). Then, as i said originally, the idea is that "I could set the linearlayout (or the image itself) to have a padding" in addition to the first padding you see in the relativelayout. Currently, this layout should have NO border shown.

the problem seems to be with the different stretching properties of image(in image view) and the one set as a background(in linear layout). The image set as a backgroung doesnt necessarily maintains the aspect ratio while the image in the image tends to maintain it.
When you give the height of the layout to 60 dp, the image shrinks maintaining the aspect ratio leaving the black strips on the sides.
This works for me:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:padding="5dp" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/black_bg" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:src="#drawable/asd"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>

I believe this is a good candidate of a bug!
Anyway, I understand what you intend to achieve with this layout. The problem is setting the height of your RelativeLayout. I will not ask you to wrap content! Simply, since the height is set to 60dp and padding to 5dp, take a further step and set the height of the LinearLayout to 50dp which is 60-2*5 :)
Finally, to get the border, add a padding of, say, 5dp to your LinearLayout and set the Height of the ImageView to 50dp - 2*5 = 40dp.
This will work perfectly
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:padding="5dp" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:padding="5dp"
android:background="#drawable/black_bg" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="#drawable/red_rectangle" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>

I dont know why its showing the extra black patch there. Have you tried running the app? The UI editor has some defects, especially when it comes to ImageView..
Now for the border around image, set the background and padding to the ImageView itself. Do not need the LinearLayout. Add the scale type attribute with "centerInside" value.
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="5dp"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="#drawable/red_rectangle"
android:background="#000"
android:scaleType="centerInside"/>

"For reference, I am using this to provide a border around the image"
Add a drawable "border.xml"
<shape xmlns:android:"http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape:"rectangle">
<stroke android:width="5dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
<padding android:left="5dp" android:top="5dp" android:right="5dp" android:bottom="5dp" />
</shape>
set your ImageView background to this drawable.
And lets simplify your layout and center the ImageView:
<?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" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="#drawable/red_rectangle"
android:background="#drawable/border" />
</RelativeLayout>

Try this ...........
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:padding="5dp" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/black_bg"
**android:padding="5dp"**
>
<ImageView
**android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"**
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="#drawable/red_rectangle" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
make your image view like this ..
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageViewMyicon"
android:layout_width="30dp"
android:background="#drawable/myiconbackground"
android:layout_height="30dp"
android:src="#drawable/myicon"
android:contentDescription="#string/my_icon"
/>
Inside your drawable myiconbackground.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle"
android:padding="10dp">
<solid android:color="#0D95BD"/>
<corners android:radius="5dp"/>
<padding android:left="2dp" android:right="2dp" android:top="2dp" android:bottom="2dp"/>
</shape>
i checked this one is working for me , should do for you as well

Repeat Image in with ImageView in RelativeLayout

I want to repeat the image with ImageView with in RelativeLayout. Can it be possible to use the Bitmap xml and use tilemode "repeat" with RelativeLayout, because what I have seen things on Internet they all dealing with LinearLayout.
Any help or tip will be warmly welcomed.

Create an XML file named background in Drawable folder
background.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="#drawable/imagename"
android:tileMode="repeat" />
In your Relative Layout add the above XML as background
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:background="#drawable/background" />

Yes of Course, You can use it with relative layout. Use it as background of your RelativeLayout. I also used it in my project.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:background="#drawable/top_header_bg_repeat"
android:gravity="center">
top_header_bg_repeat.xml (in drawable folder)
----------------------------------------------
<bitmap
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="#drawable/top_header"
android:tileMode="repeat"
android:dither="true"/>
Set Bitmap in ImageView
----------------------
<ImageView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/top_header_bg_repeat"
android:scaleType="fitXY"/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/top_header_bg_repeat"/>

Yes, its possible. Define your repeating image as Drawable (bitmap) with android:tileMode="repeat" in XML and use it as background of your RelativeLayout.

In all requests exists one small problem if you image will be great and smaller what size your layout, image will not resize, only repeat by X.
For repeat by Y you can do it only programmly.
I solve my problem like this (set gravity fill)
drawable bg for image
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="#drawable/table_cells_bg_img"
android:tileMode="repeat" android:gravity="fill" />
and on layout
<?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="#dimen/table_cell_height">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/table_cell_height"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/table_cells_bg"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtActivityTime"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/avatarImage"
android:text="TextView"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="#dimen/font_size_middle" />
</RelativeLayout>
And table_cells_bg_img it's image with width=1px and height = 1px
and etc of layout, so now your image it's like background and it's will resized for any size of parent layout
Try, maybe help. To be cleared in my case i need tiled background image to full size of tablecell repeated by X coordinate (like i can do it on iOS). So i solve it like i describe.

RelativeLayout behaves different as list view item

Good afternoon droids!
I am facing an annoying layout problem to which i have no explanation after hours and hours of investigation... :/. I created a reduced test case which i present here.
I have a simple list item layout.
list item http://www.freeimagehosting.net/4075a.jpg
lis item image link
XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/relativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="96dp">
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView"
android:id="#+id/textView1" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="TextView"
android:id="#+id/textView2" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="10dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:src="#drawable/errorindicator"
android:layout_below="#id/textView2" />
</RelativeLayout>
the errorindicator is a red rectangle, which you can see on the image on the left side. The xml looks like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape shape="rectangle" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#color/ControllingConflictColor" />
<padding android:left="0dp" android:top="0dp"
android:right="0dp" android:bottom="0dp" />
</shape>
The described list item layout works as expected.
Now i try to fill a list view with list items as described above. The result looks like that:
list view with list items http://www.freeimagehosting.net/4cc4b.jpg
list view image link
The corresponding xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ListView android:id="#+id/listView1" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- Preview: listitem=#layout/test -->
</ListView>
As you can see on the image, the red rectangle does not match it's parent in the height anymore as it should. The images are made from the designer, but the same effect is also on the emulator and device. I am developing for API Level 8.
**I'd love if somebody could explain me, why the described layout does not work as expected in a list view. Why does the shape drawable behave different? **
Thank you for your time :)
edit: i have problems embedding the image, i used a link instead, sorry ;(
edit: added xml-drawable tag.
edit: My example can be even made much more easier. I included two text views because it has some similarity to my real layout. You can remove the two text views from the example and there still exists the problem, that the shape drawable in the image view does not match the parents height as defined, if the layout is used in a list view.

Im also finding it hard to get it done using a RelativeLayout. Well try this layout for your row xml. It uses LinearLayout.
<?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="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView"
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="10dip"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/errorindicator"/>
<TextView android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView" android:layout_weight="1.0"
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:gravity="center"/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Because i guess my desired behaviour is not possible with the give layout manager, i went another way which fits my personal situation.
I have overriden the onDraw method of the RelativeLayout and paint this red rectangle myself (after the layout process finished and the heights are set)...

If you made the asset as a png, you could then 9-patch it and add it as the background of the RelativeLayout