Tiling images in android with ImageView in XML

Question

I am trying to get an image on the background to tile until the background is full.

My current code is:

Answer 1

First, place your image in a file like res/drawable/cloud.png. This makes it accessible to your app as @drawable/cloud. But it doesn't tile (yet).

Next, you should define a bitmap resource(1) with android:tileMode="repeat". For example, you can define it on mytileablebitmap.xml:

<bitmap
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:tileMode="repeat" 
android:src="@drawable/cloud"/>

This is referencing your original tile image (drawable/cloud) and making a Drawable that knows how to tile itself to fill the available space.

Then, when you want to use the tiled background, use "@drawable/mytileablebitmap".

(1): http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html