Set drawable size programmatically

The setBounds() method doesn't work for every type of container (did work for some of my ImageView's, however).

Try the method below to scale the drawable itself:

// Read your drawable from somewhere
Drawable dr = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.somedrawable);
Bitmap bitmap = ((BitmapDrawable) dr).getBitmap();
// Scale it to 50 x 50
Drawable d = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, 50, 50, true));
// Set your new, scaled drawable "d"

Specify the size with setBounds(), ie for a 50x50 size use

drawable.setBounds(0, 0, 50, 50);

public void setBounds (int left, int top, int right, int bottom)

Before apply .setBounds(..) try to convert current Drawable into ScaleDrawable

drawable = new ScaleDrawable(drawable, 0, width, height).getDrawable();

after that

drawable.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);

will work

i didn't have time to dig why the setBounds() method is not working on bitmap drawable as expected but i have little tweaked @androbean-studio solution to do what setBounds should do...

/**
 * Created by ceph3us on 23.05.17.
 * file belong to pl.ceph3us.base.android.drawables
 * this class wraps drawable and forwards draw canvas
 * on it wrapped instance by using its defined bounds
 */
public class WrappedDrawable extends Drawable {

    private final Drawable _drawable;
    protected Drawable getDrawable() {
        return _drawable;
    }

    public WrappedDrawable(Drawable drawable) {
        super();
        _drawable = drawable;
    }

    @Override
    public void setBounds(int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
        //update bounds to get correctly
        super.setBounds(left, top, right, bottom);
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        if (drawable != null) {
            drawable.setBounds(left, top, right, bottom);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void setAlpha(int alpha) {
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        if (drawable != null) {
            drawable.setAlpha(alpha);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void setColorFilter(ColorFilter colorFilter) {
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        if (drawable != null) {
            drawable.setColorFilter(colorFilter);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getOpacity() {
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        return drawable != null
                ? drawable.getOpacity()
                : PixelFormat.UNKNOWN;
    }

    @Override
    public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        if (drawable != null) {
            drawable.draw(canvas);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getIntrinsicWidth() {
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        return drawable != null
                ? drawable.getBounds().width()
                : 0;
    }

    @Override
    public int getIntrinsicHeight() {
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        return drawable != null ?
                drawable.getBounds().height()
                : 0;
    }
}

usage:

// get huge drawable 
final Drawable drawable = resources.getDrawable(R.drawable.g_logo);
// create our wrapper           
WrappedDrawable wrappedDrawable = new WrappedDrawable(drawable);
// set bounds on wrapper 
wrappedDrawable.setBounds(0,0,32,32); 
// use wrapped drawable 
Button.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(wrappedDrawable ,null, null, null);

results

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