How to add padding for background image

Question

I have a LinearLayout which has a background image (a 9 patched png file). How can I add padding to left and right so that the background image does not take up the

Answer 1

You should use xml drawable, specially designed for this purposes - Inset Drawable: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#Inset

For example:

res/drawable/inset_background.xml:

and then in your xml layout: