Android: Setting Background Image for RelativeLayout?

Question

I have downloaded an image at runtime. Now I want to set it as a background for RelativeLayout. Does it possible?

SteD · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-16T09:57:56.853

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Check out the setBackgroundDrawable, or maybe createFromPath in the Drawable class.

   RelativeLayout rLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById (R.id.rLayout);
   Resources res = getResources(); //resource handle
   Drawable drawable = res.getDrawable(R.drawable.newImage); //new Image that was added to the res folder

    rLayout.setBackground(drawable);

edited Apr 16 '15 at 09:57

answered Feb 05 '11 at 11:44

SteD

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Yeah, you could use the createFromPath to create a Drawable object from the path where your newly downloaded image will resides in – SteD Feb 06 '11 at 18:58

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 20 '15 at 15:12

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Instead use:

View lay = (View) findViewById(R.id.rLayout);
lay.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.newImage);

This works because R.drawable.newImage refers to an integer. So you could do:

int pic = R.drawable.newImage;
lay.setBackgroundResource(pic);

edited Oct 20 '15 at 15:12

ByteHamster

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answered Oct 31 '12 at 23:51

Melvin Miller

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 09 '14 at 05:31

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Try this for Xamarin.Android (Cross Platform) -

RelativeLayout relativeLayout = new RelativeLayout (this);

OR

RelativeLayout relativeLayout = (RelativeLayout)FindViewById (Resource.Id.relativeLayout);

AND

relativeLayout.SetBackgroundDrawable (Resources.GetDrawable (Resource.Drawable.imageName));

edited Nov 09 '14 at 05:31

Confuse

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answered Jan 15 '14 at 12:27

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 13 '14 at 12:24

In the onCreate function:

RelativeLayout baseLayout = (RelativeLayout) this.findViewById(R.id.the_layout_id);

Drawable drawable = loadImageFromAsset();

if(drawable != null){
    baseLayout.setBackground(drawable);
    Log.d("TheActivity", "Setting the background");
}

The image loading method:

public Drawable loadImageFromAsset() {

    Drawable drawable;

    // load image
    try {

        // get input stream
        InputStream ims = getAssets().open("images/test.9.png");

        //Note: Images can be in hierarical 

        // load image as Drawable
        drawable = Drawable.createFromStream(ims, null);

    }
    catch(IOException ex) {
        Log.d("LoadingImage", "Error reading the image");
        return null;
    }

    return drawable;
}

The open method:

> public final InputStream open (String fileName, int accessMode)
> 
> Added in API level 1 Open an asset using an explicit access mode,
> returning an InputStream to read its contents. This provides access to
> files that have been bundled with an application as assets -- that is,
> files placed in to the "assets" directory.
> 
> fileName --- The name of the asset to open. This name can be hierarchical.
> 
> accessMode --- Desired access mode for retrieving the data.
> 
> Throws IOException

Android: Setting Background Image for RelativeLayout?

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