I have an ImageView which is displaying a png that has a bigger aspect ratio than that of the device (vertically speaking - meaning its longer). I want to display this while maintaining aspect ratio, matching the width of the parent, and pinning the imageview to the top of the screen.
The problem i have with using CENTER_CROP as the scale type is that it will (understandable) center the scaled image instead of aligning the top edge to the top edge f the image view.
The problem with FIT_START is that the image will fit the screen height and not fill the width.
I have solved this problem by using a custom ImageView and overriding onDraw(Canvas) and handeling this manually using the canvas; the problem with this approach is that 1) I'm worried there may be a simpler solution, 2) I am getting a VM mem exception when calling super(AttributeSet) in the constructor when trying to set a src img of 330kb when the heap has 3 mb free (with a heap size of 6 mb) and cant work out why.
Any ideas / suggestions / solutions are much welcome :)
Thanks
p.s. i thought that a solution may be to use a matrix scale type and do it myself, but that seems to to be the same or more work than my current solution!