I want to make a screen which contains a top bar and an image. I use TextView for the top bar and ImageView for the image. I want to set padding only to the image view. My xml i
On the ImageView use
android:src="@drawable/image"
instead of
android:background="@drawable/image"
src tag honors the padding whereas background tag does not. In some cases, esp. on clickable icon, it is a bad idea to use layout_margin instead of padding, as padding belongs to the view and makes the click area bigger!.
You should use layout_margin
instead of padding
so it should be as following:
<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"
android:background="@drawable/background" >
<TextView android:id="@+id/topBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="@string/home"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:shadowColor="#000000"
android:shadowRadius="1"
android:shadowDy="-1"
android:gravity="center"
android:background="@drawable/navBar"/>
<ImageView android:id="@+id/image"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:layout_below="@+id/topBar"
android:background="@drawable/image"/>
and you can specify 1 layout_margin
for all directions so instead of using
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
you can use:
android:layout_margin="10dip"
hope this is what you are looking for. give me a feedback otherwise ;)
update
you can set cropToPadding also:
<ImageView
...
android:cropToPadding="true"
android:padding="15dp"
android:scaleType="centerInside"
...
The only solution for this is adding the imageview to another container.
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:padding="10dp" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:background="@drawable/ic_delete_blue" />
</FrameLayout>