Feb 10, 2025 · A drawable defined in XML that clips another drawable based on this drawable's current level. You can control how much the child drawable gets clipped in width and height …

A Drawable is a general abstraction for "something that can be drawn." Most often you will deal with Drawable as the type of resource retrieved for drawing things to the screen; the Drawable …

Nov 11, 2025 · 1. What are Drawables? A Drawable resource is a general concept for a graphic that can be drawn. The simplest case is a graphical file (bitmap), which would be represented …

A Drawable is a graphic that can be drawn to the screen. You retrieve a Drawable using APIs such as getDrawable(int), and you apply a Drawable to an XML resource using attributes such …

A drawable defined in XML that insets another drawable by a specified distance. This is useful when a View needs a background that is smaller than the View's actual bounds.

Let's explore these drawable file types one by one and take a look at examples of usage.

Drawables can be an initially overwhelming topic because there are many drawable types used in different situations such as drawing shapes, setting state behaviors for buttons, creating …