In Android, you can use “android.widget.ImageButton” to display a normal “Button“, with a customized background image.
In this tutorial, we show you how to display a button with a background image named “android_button.png“, when user click on it, display a short message. As simple as that.
You may also like this Android ImageButton selector example, which allow to change button’s images depends on button states.
P.S This project is developed in Eclipse 3.7, and tested with Android 2.3.3.
1. Add Image to Resources
Put image “android_button.png” into “res/drawable-?dpi” folder. So that Android know where to find your image.
2. Add ImageButton
Open “res/layout/main.xml” file, add a “ImageButton” tag, and defined the background image via “android:src“.
File : res/layout/main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/imageButton1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="@drawable/android_button" />
</LinearLayout>
3. Code Code
Here’s the code, add a click listener on image button.
File : MyAndroidAppActivity.java
package com.mkyong.android;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
public class MyAndroidAppActivity extends Activity {
ImageButton imageButton;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
addListenerOnButton();
}
public void addListenerOnButton() {
imageButton = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.imageButton1);
imageButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
Toast.makeText(MyAndroidAppActivity.this,
"ImageButton is clicked!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
}
4. Demo
Run the application.
1. Result, a button with a customized background image.
2. Click on the button, a short message is displayed.
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When i make a imagebutton the image (png file) seems low quality and with a padding inside the button, there’s a way to make it exactly of the size of the png image and without that padding? Thank you so much.
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This info saved me a lot of time. I was originally trying to assign a view with a drawable to a Button, but it obviously wasn’t working. So, thanks a ton for posting this example source code for an ImageButton.
This information saved me a lot of time. It worked perfectly. Thanks for posting this.
Can you please help me how to add imagebutton dynamically in my activity…
Please I am new to android….
public class Mp3Player extends Activity implements OnClickListener { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { ImageButton ib1=(ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.Playbutton); ImageButton ib2=(ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.Pausebutton); ImageButton ib3=(ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.Forwardbutton); ImageButton ib4=(ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.Rewindbutton); ib1.setOnClickListener(this); super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_mp3_player); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_mp3_player, menu); return true; } @Override public void onClick(View arg0) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub switch(arg0.getId()) { case R.id.Playbutton: Log.d("MediaPlayer", "Play button was clicked"); break; case R.id.Pausebutton: Log.d("MediaPlayer", "Pause button was clicked"); default: break; } } }<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" > <ImageView android:id="@+id/imageView1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" android:src="@drawable/mp_img" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/Playbutton" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_marginBottom="80dp" android:src="@drawable/play" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/Pausebutton" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignTop="@+id/Playbutton" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/Playbutton" android:src="@drawable/pause" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/Rewindbutton" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_alignTop="@+id/Pausebutton" android:src="@drawable/rewind" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/Forwardbutton" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/Rewindbutton" android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/Rewindbutton" android:src="@drawable/forward" /> </RelativeLayout>Why is my application not running?
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Thanks for the quick instruction, it was much clearer than the Android for Abosolute Beginners book I was using (it’s not bad, just a little, uh, incomprehensible on this topic). Does this mean that each button on a form gets its own listener function? Does this apply to radio group buttons as well?
Hi,
thanks for the article 🙂 I was wondering if I can do this without the xml part. Because i have an array of images and I need to put one of the images to the button. Do I have to create the array in xml or can I write it normally in java? I am quite begginer in xml and the concept of moving from xml to java and back.
Thanks 🙂
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