my 9 Patch Image stopped working

Question

I have been using 9 patch images for a while now. But have come to an issue. The GUI designer in Eclipse tells me that the image works fine. And it looks how it should.

Answer 1

This is definitely an issue with the latest SDK. Instructions on how to resolve this can be found here:

http://codetrips.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-draw-9-patch-seems-broken-too.html

Basically you just need to add a missing jar file into the [sdk-install-dir]/tools/lib folder.

Answer 2

Ok so Im not sure if this fixed anything but I opened them and saved them again and they did not funciton still. But then I opened them and edited them. (added a pixel and saved. Then removed that pixel and saved again.) and returned them to their original data. And that seemed to fix the issue. Maybe having not edited them caused draw9patch.bat not to actually re create them. However editing them and saving them caused them to be re created and therefore they worked again.

Odd issue. and I dont know why it happened since the image was not broken and rendered in eclipse fine. But all is well again.