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I am writing a real-time game for Android, and after looking at some code from the samples provided… Read more Drawable Vs. Bitmap

I am getting 'nosuchmethod error' on some user's phones (eg. Motorola Razr i) but it wo… Read more Why Getdrawable() Doesn't Work On Some Android Devices?

Pulling my hair out here. So I'm working with an application that has several types of drawable… Read more Drawables Pulled From Wrong Resource Folder On Rotation

I have created chat bubble with drawable which looks fine, now I want to add shadow effect below th… Read more How To Add Shadow Effect On Drawable In Android

I've copied a file from the Google IO Schedule app source (https://github.com/google/iosched) n… Read more Selectableitembackground As Item In Layer-list

I'm attempting to create a custom Button that changes its shadow attributes (radius, distance, … Read more How To Identify The State From View.getdrawablestate()

I have a RadioGroup with two RadioButtons. I want to change the color of them programmatically when… Read more Change Background For Radio Button Programatically

I just have a little ListView containing all installed apps and their icons but if there are too mu… Read more Android Loadicon Generates Outofmemoryerror

I've got a really basic app in which I'm trying to insert dynamic checkboxes, and I can get… Read more Android Checkboxes Added By Code Don't Have The Right Appearance?

While on most of the devices my app is working fine, on some devices (LG G3, Samsung Galaxy S6 so f… Read more Setting Bitmapdrawable Tilemode Makes The App Restart

I have to repeat the image sequence I am using with Thread and AnimationDrawable but it is not work… Read more Image Animation In Android

I have a problem with my imageview not changing after picking an image from an array (xml resource)… Read more Android Resouce By Id / Change Image Onclick / No Change Of Imageview

According to what I've read, you can use a gradientDrawable and have three colors set for it, f… Read more Using A Gradientdrawable With More Than Three Colors Set

Based on what I learned here, I was able to add some 'fences' around groupings of related w… Read more Which Element Do I Need To Modify To Add Padding Between A Drawable And Its Enclosed Elements?

I am successfully building a 9patch drawable at runtime on Android 3.0+ using the excellent gist pr… Read more Building A 9 Patch Drawable At Runtime

I wanted to set a custom drawable to be the android:src of FloatingActionButton in this layout: Sol… Read more What Is Wrong With My Layer-list Drawable?

I create an additional method: public boolean exampleEdTxt1(){ try{ solo.getCurrentActivity().ge… Read more How To Check From Robotium That My Png Is Present On The Screen?

I have this: round_button.xml Solution 1: If you want to define certain states for your button, y… Read more Defined Custom Shape For Button In Xml. Now I Want To Change The Color Dynamically. How?

I am trying to make my RelativeLayout background image animate-able by trying to set number of imag… Read more "class Cast Exception" When Trying To Set Image Frames To Background

I have found this question and the solution was this code : Solution 1: I think you could… Read more To Draw Rounded Rectangle In Android