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A Drawable is a graphics-related term which generally means "something to be drawn."

While there are multiple definitions of Drawable in the wild, in most cases a Drawable is a general abstraction for "something that can be drawn." GDK provides a different definition: a Drawable is an element onto which things can be drawn.

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Can the Android drawable directory contain subdirectories?

In the Android SDK documentation, all of the examples used with the @drawable/my_image xml syntax directly address images that are stored in the res/drawable directory in my project. I am wondering if it is explicitly not okay to create a sub…
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How set background drawable programmatically in Android

To set Background: RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.background); layout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.ready); Is the best way to do it?
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How to create Drawable from resource

I have an image res/drawable/test.png (R.drawable.test). I want to pass this image to a function which accepts Drawable, e.g. mButton.setCompoundDrawables(). So how can I convert an image resource to a Drawable?
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setBackground vs setBackgroundDrawable (Android)

I want to set background drawable of a view. There are two methods for this (as far as I see): setBackground and setBackgroundDrawable. When I use setBackground, it says it has been added in API level 16 but my project's min SDK version is 7. I…
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Android splash screen image sizes to fit all devices

I have a full screen PNG I want to display on splash. Only one error there, and I have no idea what size to put in every drawable folder (ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, and xhdpi). My application is supposed to run good and beautiful on all phones and tablets.…
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Android - drawable with rounded corners at the top only

I had this drawable to have a rounded rectangle as a background: …
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How do you obtain a Drawable object from a resource id in android package?

I need to get a Drawable object to display on an image button. Is there a way to use the code below (or something like it) to get an object from the android.R.drawable.* package? for example if drawableId was…
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How do I set the rounded corner radius of a color drawable using xml?

On the android website, there is a section about color drawables. Defining these drawables in xml looks like this: #f00 #0000ff
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Understanding the Use of ColorMatrix and ColorMatrixColorFilter to Modify a Drawable's Hue

I'm working on a UI for an app, and I'm attempting to use grayscale icons, and allow the user to change the theme to a color of their choosing. To do this, I'm trying to just apply a ColorFilter of some sort to overlay a color on top of the…
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Replace selector images programmatically

I have an ImageView that has a drawable image resource set to a selector. How do I programmatically access the selector and change the images of the highlighted and non-highlighted state? Here is a code of selector:
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Android: failed to convert @drawable/picture into a drawable

In my drawable folder I have a few images and they all reference perfect, but when I try and add any more images with the exact same size in the same folder, and try to reference it, is flags up an error "Failed to convert @drawable/picture into a…
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Is it possible to rotate a drawable in the xml description?

I am creating an app, with resources that can be reused (because buttons are always the same, but mirrored or rotated). I do want to use the same resource so I don't have to add 3 more resources that are exactly like the original but rotated. But I…
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Why isn't my vector drawable scaling as expected?

I am attempting to use vector drawables in my Android app. From http://developer.android.com/training/material/drawables.html (emphasis mine): In Android 5.0 (API Level 21) and above, you can define vector drawables, which scale without losing…
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How to programmatically set drawableRight on Android Edittext?

I know about set drawableRight in XML. but i required to do it programmatically because it is change as per some condition.
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Android: Cloning a drawable in order to make a StateListDrawable with filters

I'm trying to make a general framework function that makes any Drawable become highlighted when pressed/focused/selected/etc. My function takes a Drawable and returns a StateListDrawable, where the default state is the Drawable itself, and the state…
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