Android tiling a background image: using a Bitmap resizes the image?

I'd like to have a tiled background in a layout I've created, in the x-direction. I've followed some good instructions found online to tile correctly, but the source image is now stretched vertically a good bit. I think it has to do with the nature of bitmap filetypes.

Example picture:

The first image is the background image before tiling. The second image is after tiling. As you can see, the image is stretched vertically a good bit, and also appears a bit blurry due to the resizing.

I've tried placing the images in both the drawable-hdpi and drawable folder. I've tried placing the XML file in both folders. None of that seemed to matter.

Here is the code for the layout that generated those tw开发者_运维百科o images:

<?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">
<ImageView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
    android:background="@drawable/bg" />
<ImageView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
    android:background="@drawable/bg_repeat" />
</LinearLayout>

"@drawable/bg" is the actual image itself, bg.png. "@drawable/bg_repeat" is the following bitmap XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="@drawable/cdetail_bg_unclaimed_details"
android:antialias="false"
android:dither="false"
android:filter="false"
android:gravity="center|center_vertical"
android:tileMode="repeat" />

Is there an alternative to this for x-repeat tiling? Or is there some workaround that I haven't examined yet? I've changed all of the options for antialias, dither, filter, etc. Nothing seemed to change anything.

Thanks for the help!

EDIT: This appears to be a bug using the Graphical Layout tool. It looks OK on my phone.

This appears to be a bug using the Graphical Layout tool. It looks OK on my phone.

You can't repeat a bitmap background in one-direction using xml but Java code surely can do that.

BitmapDrawable bitmap = (BitmapDrawable) getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.image);
 bitmap.setTileModeX(TileMode.REPEAT);

So now if you set this "bitmap" to any view's background

For example: If we have a TextView "text" then text.setBackgroundDrawable(bitmap) will set the background of this text-view
to "bitmap".

It will repeat in x-direction but will preserve its height in y-direction

Hope this helps.