It seems my first attempt to post this did end up making it through... http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/59201dd5cddf7e94
On Apr 9, 1:50 am, patbenatar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all- > > I apologize in advance if the list receives two copies of this... I > was having some issues with my Google account for the past few hours > and it doesn't appear as if this post made it through. > > I am trying to display my splash screen image [I use the splash when > fetching data from a Web API] as a windowBackground so it will come up > instantly when the user starts the Activity rather than seeing the > default theme background before an ImageView is loaded in. My problem > is my image is 854x854 square [so it will look perfect and fill the > screen on all production Android devices] and I need to use something > like scaleType="centerCrop" [this worked great on my ImageView but > won't work when I try to apply it to the <bitmap> drawable I am using > as my background. > > Here is the declaration of my drawable [/res/drawable/splash_bg.xml] > (not including the XML doctype line) > > <bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; > android:src="@drawable/grub_truck_splash" /> > > The image IS showing as the background, however it will not scale > properly whether I use android:scaleType="centerCrop" or > android:gravity="clip_horizontal" or > android:gravity="clip_vertical" [I can't tell how the latter two > attributes are in any way useful.. they definitely do something but > it's not quite visually pleasing... an explanation of these would be > nice, just out of curiosity.] > > Any help would be great! > > Thanks, > Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
