Prevent background image from stretching the view

Question

Whenever I assign background to a view that is laid out with wrap_content, if the background image is larger than a view, the view is stretched so that it can hold the entire ba

Answer 1

You can use RelativeLayout and create two elements inside it. An ImageView for the Background and another view for your content. Use the android:layout_alignBottom to the the ImageView and set the value to the id of your content view. Also set the scaleType of the ImageView to fitXY.