Set background to an listview

Question

I want to set an background to my listview that have different size (depending the appearance of softkeyboard). My list view is in between the editboxes and I want my editboxes always to be visible (means I do not want to use adjustPan).

My problem comes in the moment when the android adjust the size of my listview and the background get tweaked. I want my background to remain the same, just to be cropped.

and I want to look something like this Is there any style that I can add that will make the image act like this, the point is to do NOT do an resize and to fill the whole available area. And to DO something like a CROP , means to show as much as there is an space and then the rest just to be cropped.

Answer 1

I found some workaround for the problem I want to solve. I set the scaleType with "centerCrop" value and it seems to work fine.

I hope this will save time to someone else having this problem...

Answer 2

I would put the listview in a linearlayout and put the background on the linearlayout.

As for the textbox at the top, if you have not figured that out, use relativelayout.

Here is a good link about the view being re-sized by the keyboard: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/be5ffe40c2bc29f0?pli=1

Here is a good link for the button staying on top: Add Image at above of listview

Answer 3

Try in your Manifest to add

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" or "adjustUnspecified"

for your <activity

Read more about values here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#wsoft