How do you set the background in a LinearLayout on Android?

1 year ago
Liam
1 minute

In Android, we can set the background for a LinearLayout in two different ways.

  1. Setting background properties in XML layout files:
    In XML layout files, you can specify the background color or background image for a LinearLayout by setting the android:background attribute.
<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/background_image"
    android:orientation="vertical">
    <!-- Add other child views here -->
</LinearLayout>
  1. Dynamically set the background using Java code:
    In Java code, you can set the background resource for a LinearLayout using the setBackgroundResource() method. First, get an instance of the LinearLayout, and then call the setBackgroundResource() method to set the background.
LinearLayout linearLayout = findViewById(R.id.linear_layout);
linearLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.background_image);

It’s worth noting that background resources can include color values, image resources, etc., which can be images from the res/drawable folder or color resources from the res/color folder.

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