Background image

houba · by **houba** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:09 am

Hello,

I'd like to know how I can get a really nice background image behind certain text fields and buttons?
How does one do that? I see some really sleek apps out there that have this really nice texture behind the login screen ... how can I do that?

Thanks

Wubinator · by **Wubinator** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:49 pm

I created something using the main.xml (because I want a background image when my application starts)

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
 
        android:padding="6dip" android:background="@drawable/mainbackground">
 
        <Button android:id="@+id/getnewchar" android:text="New Character"
 
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 
                android:background="@drawable/mainpagebutton" android:textSize="24sp"
 
                android:textColor="#FFFFFF" android:clickable="true" android:hint="Get a new character"/>
 
</RelativeLayout>
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As you can see I set android:background="@drawable/mainbackground" on my RelativeLayout tag. This points to the map "res/drawable" in that map I have an image 'mainbackground.png' ..... that's all there is to it.

For the Button I also have a background 'android:background="@drawable/mainpagebutton" ' works the same way.

Hope that helps you

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