Android: How to stretch an image to the screen wid

Question

I want to download an image (of unknown size, but which is always roughly square) and display it so that it fills the screen horizontally, and stretches vertically to maintain the aspect ratio of the image, on any screen size. Here is my (non-working) code. It stretches the image horizontally, but not vertically, so it is squashed...

ImageView mainImageView = new ImageView(context);
    mainImageView.setImageBitmap(mainImage); //downloaded from server
    mainImageView.setScaleType(ScaleType.FIT_XY);
    //mainImageView.setAdjustViewBounds(true); 
    //with this line enabled, just scales image down
    addView(mainImageView,new LinearLayout.LayoutParams( 
            LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));

Answer 1

I did it with these values within a LinearLayout:

Scale type: fitStart
Layout gravity: fill_horizontal
Layout height: wrap_content
Layout weight: 1
Layout width: fill_parent

Answer 2

You can use my StretchableImageView preserving the aspect ratio (by width or by height) depending on width and height of drawable:

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class StretchableImageView extends ImageView{

    public StretchableImageView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public StretchableImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public StretchableImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        if(getDrawable()!=null){
            if(getDrawable().getIntrinsicWidth()>=getDrawable().getIntrinsicHeight()){
                int width = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
                int height = width * getDrawable().getIntrinsicHeight()
                            / getDrawable().getIntrinsicWidth();
                setMeasuredDimension(width, height);
            }else{
                int height = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
                int width = height * getDrawable().getIntrinsicWidth()
                            / getDrawable().getIntrinsicHeight();
                setMeasuredDimension(width, height);
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

Everyone is doing this programmily so I thought this answer would fit perfectly here. This code worked for my in the xml. Im NOT thinking about ratio yet, but still wanted to place this answer if it would help anyone.

android:adjustViewBounds="true"

Cheers..

Answer 4

Setting adjustViewBounds to true and using a LinearLayout view group worked very well for me. No need to subclass or ask for device metrics:

//NOTE: "this" is a subclass of LinearLayout
ImageView splashImageView = new ImageView(context);
splashImageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.splash);
splashImageView.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
addView(splashImageView);

Answer 5

In the end, I generated the dimensions manually, which works great:

DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics();
context.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dm);
int width = dm.widthPixels;
int height = width * mainImage.getHeight() / mainImage.getWidth(); //mainImage is the Bitmap I'm drawing
addView(mainImageView,new LinearLayout.LayoutParams( 
        width, height));

Answer 6

I have managed to achieve this using this XML code only. It might be the case that eclipse does not render the height to show it expanding to fit; however, when you actually run this on a device, it properly renders and provides the desired result. (well at least for me)

<FrameLayout
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content">

     <ImageView
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:adjustViewBounds="true"
          android:scaleType="centerCrop"
          android:src="@drawable/whatever" />
</FrameLayout>