Android widget that displays an arbitrary image or drawable, such as an icon.
Questions tagged [imageview]
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Padding in ImageView is not Working
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 is given below. The padding action is not working. Can anybody explain…

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selector not working with layout and image view
I want to use selector for a layout and image view..But it is not working for me.
When I changed image view to imagebutton or button, it works fine. Any help will be greatly appreciated.. Thanks in advance..
here is the xmls I used..

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Unexplained gap/padding to the left, between Toolbar, and LinearLayout
I have the following structure in the layout file of my Android studio project, and I see unexplained left padding between the parent element (Toolbar) and it's immediate child element (LinearLayout).
Layout Text

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How to insert drawables in text
I want to insert small pictures, like arrow icons for example, into certain positions of contents of a TextView.
The photo below depicts exactly what I want:
Obviously, the most naive solution is to use multiple TextView on either side of the small…

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Android add arrow image to spinner
I have created a background drawable that I use for a spinner. I would like to now but an arrow image inside this background. I have tried things like android:drawableRight="arrowimage", but this does not seem to show anything. Does anyone know how…

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How to display .gif file in imageview?
My layout have lots of imageviews. I want to show .gif animated file in just one imageview. I tried Yash method (Adding gif image in an ImageView in android) but .gif file shown all layout. Other views dissappeared.
I want to show all.
Any idea?

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ImageView fit without stretching the image
is it possible that my ImageView will fit to all screen sizes without the image look stretched?
i tried all scale types changing it to background and src with fill_parent > wrap_content
but still. if the image is not smaller it just looks…

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Android ImageView ScaleType and item height
Things looked quite simple first but in the end the result is not good.
I have an image which has a width larger than screen's width. So I need to scale it down in my imageview. I looked over the ScaleType options and tried them all but none is ok.…

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How do you change the size of an ImageView?
I have setup my ImageView like the following:

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android - how to get the image edge x/y position inside imageview
If i have an ImageView that fills the screen.
The ImageView background is set to green color.
I place a bitmap in the ImageView, keeping bitmap proportions.
A portrait photo in this layout will show green on both left and right side
(Phone…

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Setting Android images from string value
Currently I'm drawing a PNG image in my Android application like so:
ImageView image = new ImageView(context);
image.setImageDrawable(context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.testimage))
If I have a list of image names in a database, is there…

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Android ScrollView adds extra padding on top and bottom of child imageview
I have a problem with rendering a ScrollView. Essentially, the layout is fixed header and footer with a scrollview in the middle. The idea is that when the screen keyboard is activated for the content EditText the image can be scrolled if the height…

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Using picasso library with a circle image view
I am looking at using the Picasso library to download an image from URL and pass this into circle image view, but since picasso requires that you pass in an actual imageView I have come to a standstill on how to do it
I am using the picasso library…

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How can I show an image using the ImageView component in javafx and fxml?
I suppose it's a very simple thing but I just can't get behind it.
All I want is to show an image over an ImageView linked to fxml.
Here is my code:
package application;
import java.io.File;
import javafx.application.Application;
import…

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Alpha-gradient on Android
I need to create an alpha-gradient on the edge of the ImageView. Preferably using only XML.
Image for example

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