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Imageview shows border around photo that does not exist in the source image

I'm trying to display a simple image in an imageview and it seems to be adding a border around the photo that isn't there in the source image. I placed the imageview in the parent view and set the image to it, and in the editor you can see a small sliver of the border but when I run it on a device or emulator more of a border appears.
I tried removing a pixel off the size of the photo in case there was a border but that didn't fix it. Below are the photos of the emulator and the editor to show the difference.
Editor:
Emulator:
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
EDIT: added xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/activity_home_screen"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context="frolicindustries.strandstudybible.HomeScreen"
android:weightSum="1"
android:background="#android:color/background_light"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:baselineAligned="false">
<!--android:scaleType="fitCenter"-->
<!--android:cropToPadding="false"-->
<!--android:layout_weight="0.01"-->
<Button
android:text="Button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/About"
android:background="#drawable/aboutgradient"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_height="65sp"
android:layout_marginBottom="1dip"
android:layout_marginTop="1dip"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/Extras"
android:layout_alignEnd="#+id/Extras"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/Bible"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/Bible" />
<Button
android:text="Button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/Extras"
android:background="#drawable/extragradient"
android:layout_height="65sp"
android:layout_above="#+id/About"
android:layout_marginTop="1dip"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/WTFW"
android:layout_alignEnd="#+id/WTFW"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/Bible"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/Bible" />
<Button
android:text="Button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/Bible"
android:background="#drawable/biblegradient"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:elevation="0dp"
android:layout_height="65sp"
android:layout_marginLeft="-5dip"
android:layout_marginRight="-5dip"
android:layout_above="#+id/WTFW" />
<Button
android:text="Button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/WTFW"
android:background="#drawable/wtfwgradient"
android:layout_height="65sp"
android:layout_above="#+id/Extras"
android:layout_marginTop="1dip"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/Bible"
android:layout_alignEnd="#+id/Bible"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/Bible"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/Bible" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView2"
android:src="#drawable/logo"
android:background="#null"
tools:targetApi="lollipop"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:adjustViewBounds="false"
app:srcCompat="#drawable/logo"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/Bible"
android:layout_alignEnd="#+id/Bible"
android:layout_height="155sp" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/title"
android:id="#+id/imageView3"
android:layout_weight="0.29"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#+id/Bible"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/imageView2"
android:layout_alignEnd="#+id/imageView2"
android:cropToPadding="false"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/imageView2" />
</RelativeLayout>

Check this,
my xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/content_main"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:background="#000"
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
tools:context="com.example.charu.its2017huree.MainActivity"
tools:showIn="#layout/app_bar_main"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ImageView
android:background="#FFF"
android:src="#drawable/amanda"
android:id="#+id/my_image_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="300dp" />
</LinearLayout>
I have set an imageView and i found out it seems there is something wrong with it's left and right edges. I have given match_parent to my imageView already.So I add a background color to my imageView to find out what's going on.
But that's not enough for me i want to see the boundaries as well.It's there on your android mobile!
Settings >Developer Options >(scroll bit down) under category Drawing there is a option Show layout boundaries > Tick that option .. mm You get some kind of grids in your mobile.It's normal it will be gone when you untick that option.
Let's jump back to image view and see how it looks now!
Now i can clearly see a background color which i add in behind of the image
Also image view width boundary is fine,it's match_parent.You can see that from your layout boundaries.
MM sounds like image didn't fit properly then i try something with scaleType like android:scaleType="fitXY" and run and see how is it now .. all-right it seems she has taken the full space .. I mean in my imageView :D
This way you can clearly identify what'w wrong with your imageView

what is your image saved as? i would suggest .png extension. I would get the border when my images are jpg or anything else.

Using RelativeLayout, LinearLayout and layout_weight at the same time - weird behaviour

I've got an activity layout specified in an XML file - activity_intro.xml - and I'm trying to create another one that is similar but slightly different - that's going to be activity_instructions.xml.
The Intro activity has a 9patch image at the bottom of the screen that is supposed to stay there and only adjust to different widths of the screens.
The Instructions activity is supposed to contain the same image but above 2 more buttons - all three of these views need to be always located at the bottom of the screen.
activity_intro.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#drawable/home_background" >
<LinearLayout
style="#style/Activity"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/introAnimationImageView"
android:layout_width="152dip"
android:layout_height="176dip"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:contentDescription="#string/intro_animation_content_description"
android:src="#drawable/animation_intro01" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/introTextViewTitle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/intro_title"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/introTextViewSubtitle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/intro_subtitle"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/introButtonLoginSignup"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="#string/intro_button_label_login_signup" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/introButtonInstructions"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/introButtonLoginSignup"
android:text="#string/intro_button_label_instructions" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/introButtonReportAnonymously"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/introButtonLoginSignup"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="#string/intro_button_label_report_anonymously" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"
android:contentDescription="#null"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/footer_cityscape" />
</LinearLayout>
Result:
Since I've got working code for Intro, I wanted to make Instructions follow its example but the layout_weight property isn't behaving as expected. First of all, I was only trying to put in the 2 buttons and leave out the image:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="0.1"
android:background="#drawable/home_background" >
<LinearLayout
style="#style/Activity"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/instructionsTextViewTitle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="#string/instructions_title_1"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/instructionsImageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:contentDescription="#string/instructions_image_content_description"
android:src="#drawable/forms" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/instructionsTextViewDescription"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/instructions_description_1"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/instructionsButtonPrevious"
style="#style/ButtonPrevious"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:text="#string/instructions_button_label_previous" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/instructionsButtonNext"
style="#style/ButtonNext"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:text="#string/instructions_button_label_next" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
This only worked when I set the layout_weight of the bottom RelativeLayout to 1 (instead of 0) and for the ScrollView 0.1 (instead of 1). If I used the original values the RelativeLayout would take up all the screen. Could anyone explain to me why that is?
I also tried googling the issue and noticed people would suggest to set layout_height to 0dip which I tried but it also didn't work as expected.
Secondly, I tried adding the already mentioned ImageView to the bottom RelativeLayout. This, however, basically displays only the ImageView and not the buttons - or one of the buttons is on top of the image (hiding it). Why is that? Don't I specifically set the buttons to be placed below it?
What should the code look like in order for it to be doing what I expect it?
Further explanation:
Below are images that should help indicate what exactly I want to achieve. The green bits are the ScrollViews - I added them because Android devices tend to have diverse screen sizes. Their purpose is to present the content properly independently of the screen size, i.e. if the screen is small, the user will be able to scroll that part to read the entire text and view the image.
The red bit on the left (Intro) shows the ImageView that is supposed to always be at the bottom of the screen; it'll always be there, visible, and it's the green bit above it that will be movable.
If you take a look at the red bit on the right (Instructions), there's a Next button that's covering the image with the lorry/truck that was visible in the Intro screenshot. Now that's wrong - there should be 2 buttons BELOW the image, as seen on the last screenshot (the 2 blue rectangles).

How to achieve this kind of layout in Android

I'm new to Android development and I'm trying to achieve a layout for my app that is capable of handling different screen resolutions/ratios.
I've been reading a lot of the documentation and questions on this site to try to understand the basics and concepts.
First I went through:
developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
And questions like:
stackoverflow.com/questions/6403619/how-to-support-all-the-different-resolutions-of-android-products
I've got a pretty basic idea on how to handle things out. But still, its pretty difficult for a starter to get going, and I found myself stucked trying to achieve the solution I came up with.
I designed my app to a target resolution of 480x800, and set it up to always show in portrait mode.
This is how it looks like and how I understand it should work (I used Waldo for the sake of example haha):
(sorry for the link, I need 10 rep to post images)
http://i.imgur.com/KXTAXir.jpg
My root Layout is a LinearLayout, wich contains 3 other Layouts being A and C set up to a weight of 0.8 while B is at 8.4. This is all fine, but the contents of B are set up to DP units at the moment just to be able to test.
B consists of a frame Layout who has 3 other Layouts inside, where 2 of them are working fine, and shown only when needed. The problem is that I need B to be able to adapt based on the contents of it first child: a LinearLayout wich contains 2 ImageView and 1 ProgressBar. I need that those ImageView always keep their ratio.
Here is an example of how it should work:
http://i.imgur.com/cH7fUze.jpg
Imagine those 4 are real screens, wich vary in ratio and size. So my app should only adapt B (from my first image) to keep the images original ratio.
Here is the layout code:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/darkgray"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0.8"
android:background="#666666" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/level_text_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="LEVEL"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/level_text_score"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="SCORE"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/level_text_clock"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="01:59"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />
</RelativeLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="8.4" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true" />
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar1"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:max="1000"
android:progress="0" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true" />
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/pauseMask"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#000000"
android:visibility="gone" >
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/gameoverMask"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#FFFFFF"
android:visibility="gone" >
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0.8"
android:background="#666666" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/level_text_status"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="0/0"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="Button"
android:onClick="useHint" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/button1"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="Button"
android:onClick="toggleSound" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button3"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/button2"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="Button"
android:onClick="togglePause" />
</RelativeLayout>
The last thing that stays unclear to me is how to handle the text and button sizes. Should I set them in DPs? How do I get them to scale accordingly like it can be seen on the bottom of my second picture.
Thank you for your help, I also want this to serve as an example to others that are having trouble to understand how to handle this kind of scenarios.

I'm not sure, if I got your question right.
However, you can specify different layouts for different screen sizes and orientations, as described here: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
Just give the respective suffix in the name of your layout XML file.

I ended up creating a custom View for my images. The view calculates the space thats left on its parent, scales the images manually and then resizes itself to the same size of the resulting image.
To resize the progress bar to have the same width as the images, I used a custom listener that gets triggered when my custom views get resized. Then I resize the progressbar to match their width.
With this I achieved what I wanted, a layout that will work perfectly in all screen sizes.

layout problem raise

This is my layout file is ::
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/relativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:background="#drawable/bg1"
>
<!-- <RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/relativeLayo"
android:layout_width="480dp" android:layout_height="320dp"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
android:background="#drawable/bg1"> -->
<ImageView android:src="#drawable/lets_play"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="260dp"
android:id="#+id/imageView1" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
></ImageView>
<ImageView android:src="#drawable/show_me"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="220dp"
android:id="#+id/imageView1" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="60dp"
></ImageView>
<ImageButton android:id="#+id/anim_btn_play"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="260dp" android:layout_marginTop="150dp"
android:src="#drawable/play">
</ImageButton>
</RelativeLayout>
And mobile output is like ::
![this][1]
now my problem is :: i would like to set 480 * 320 size screen and layout is starting from left. At right side there is black portion remain.i have approx ten activity and all activity are going to display same direction. now i would like to show in center like ::
![this][2]
so can you tell me solution?

Easiest method is to wrap your Relative layout with something else, probably linear layout would be fine, and then:
<linearlayout gravity=center>
<relativelayout width=480dp height=320dp>
...
It should quick fix your problem on particular 480x320 screen.
BUT, I would suggest you rethink about your background image to make it possible to adopt to screens with different aspect ratio, consider looking nine-patch and make the background 'strecthable' or make a custom drawable that will stay in middle of screen.

Android - Two ImageViews side-by-side

I am trying to create an Activity for an Android app with two imageViews aligned side-by-side. my current layout config is as follows:
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="15dip" android:paddingBottom="15dip"
android:background="#drawable/dark_bg">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/numberDays"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scaleType="fitStart"
android:src="#drawable/counter_01" />
<ImageView android:src="#drawable/counter_days"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:scaleType="fitStart"
android:id="#+id/daysText"></ImageView>
</LinearLayout>
The first image will be a square (lets say 100x100) and the second image will be rectangular (300x100) - and I want them to be aligned next to each other but always be scaled to fit within the width of the device - is this possible just with layout config?
The current config just shows the first image the entire width (and almost height) of the screen and the second image is not shown at all. I have tried changing wrap_content with fill_parent and hardocding widths but that has just resulted in the both images being shown but the first image on top of the second image (both anchored left).
Thanks
UPDATED AGAIN:
I have updated my layout to look like this now including the ScrollView as recommended but no joy:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:gravity="top"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<!-- Header for activity - this has the countdown in it -->
<ScrollView android:id="#+id/ScrollView01" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="right"
android:background="#drawable/dark_bg" android:orientation="horizontal">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/numberDays"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:src="#drawable/counter_01" />
<ImageView android:src="#drawable/counter_days"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:id="#+id/daysText"/>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<!-- main body for the rest of the info -->
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:gravity="center"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/light_bg">
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Using the layout_weight as suggested has given both the images the right ratios and appear to be scaled perfectly, however, I am still having the problem whereby they are both anchored to the far left of the screen, so the first image is actually overlaid on top of the second image, rather than having them side by side.
Below is a screenshot of the Eclipse display:

try using layout_weight for both of the ImageView components. So something like:
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="15dip"
android:paddingBottom="15dip"
android:background="#drawable/dark_bg">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/numberDays"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scaleType="fitStart"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:src="#drawable/counter_01" />
<ImageView android:src="#drawable/counter_days"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:scaleType="fitStart"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:id="#+id/daysText"></ImageView>
</LinearLayout>
i added android:layout_weight="1" to each of them. Read up on layout_weight for LinearLayout definitions, it's very useful!

You can try creating a horizontal ScrollView with a layout_width of a pixel value greater than the two ImageViews combined, rather than fill_parent. Then place your LinearLayout inside of it.