Android: How to stretch an image to the screen width while maintaining aspect ratio?

I accomplished this with a custom view. Set layout_width="fill_parent" and layout_height="wrap_content", and point it to the appropriate drawable:

public class Banner extends View {

  private final Drawable logo;

  public Banner(Context context) {
    super(context);
    logo = context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.banner);
    setBackgroundDrawable(logo);
  }

  public Banner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    logo = context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.banner);
    setBackgroundDrawable(logo);
  }

  public Banner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    logo = context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.banner);
    setBackgroundDrawable(logo);
  }

  @Override protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec,
      int heightMeasureSpec) {
    int width = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
    int height = width * logo.getIntrinsicHeight() / logo.getIntrinsicWidth();
    setMeasuredDimension(width, height);
  }
}

In the end, I generated the dimensions manually, which works great:

DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics();
context.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dm);
int width = dm.widthPixels;
int height = width * mainImage.getHeight() / mainImage.getWidth(); //mainImage is the Bitmap I'm drawing
addView(mainImageView,new LinearLayout.LayoutParams( 
        width, height));

I just read the source code for ImageView and it is basically impossible without using the subclassing solutions in this thread. In ImageView.onMeasure we get to these lines:

        // Get the max possible width given our constraints
        widthSize = resolveAdjustedSize(w + pleft + pright, mMaxWidth, widthMeasureSpec);

        // Get the max possible height given our constraints
        heightSize = resolveAdjustedSize(h + ptop + pbottom, mMaxHeight, heightMeasureSpec);

Where h and w are the dimensions of the image, and p* is the padding.

And then:

private int resolveAdjustedSize(int desiredSize, int maxSize,
                               int measureSpec) {
    ...
    switch (specMode) {
        case MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED:
            /* Parent says we can be as big as we want. Just don't be larger
               than max size imposed on ourselves.
            */
            result = Math.min(desiredSize, maxSize);

So if you have a layout_height="wrap_content" it will set widthSize = w + pleft + pright, or in other words, the maximum width is equal to the image width.

This means that unless you set an exact size, images are NEVER enlarged. I consider this to be a bug, but good luck getting Google to take notice or fix it. Edit: Eating my own words, I submitted a bug report and they say it has been fixed in a future release!

Another solution

Here is another subclassed workaround, but you should (in theory, I haven't really tested it much!) be able to use it anywhere you ImageView. To use it set layout_width="match_parent", and layout_height="wrap_content". It is quite a lot more general than the accepted solution too. E.g. you can do fit-to-height as well as fit-to-width.

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.ImageView;

// This works around the issue described here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12675430/265521
public class StretchyImageView extends ImageView
{

    public StretchyImageView(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
    }

    public StretchyImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public StretchyImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
    {
        // Call super() so that resolveUri() is called.
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);

        // If there's no drawable we can just use the result from super.
        if (getDrawable() == null)
            return;

        final int widthSpecMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(widthMeasureSpec);
        final int heightSpecMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(heightMeasureSpec);

        int w = getDrawable().getIntrinsicWidth();
        int h = getDrawable().getIntrinsicHeight();
        if (w <= 0)
            w = 1;
        if (h <= 0)
            h = 1;

        // Desired aspect ratio of the view's contents (not including padding)
        float desiredAspect = (float) w / (float) h;

        // We are allowed to change the view's width
        boolean resizeWidth = widthSpecMode != MeasureSpec.EXACTLY;

        // We are allowed to change the view's height
        boolean resizeHeight = heightSpecMode != MeasureSpec.EXACTLY;

        int pleft = getPaddingLeft();
        int pright = getPaddingRight();
        int ptop = getPaddingTop();
        int pbottom = getPaddingBottom();

        // Get the sizes that ImageView decided on.
        int widthSize = getMeasuredWidth();
        int heightSize = getMeasuredHeight();

        if (resizeWidth && !resizeHeight)
        {
            // Resize the width to the height, maintaining aspect ratio.
            int newWidth = (int) (desiredAspect * (heightSize - ptop - pbottom)) + pleft + pright;
            setMeasuredDimension(newWidth, heightSize);
        }
        else if (resizeHeight && !resizeWidth)
        {
            int newHeight = (int) ((widthSize - pleft - pright) / desiredAspect) + ptop + pbottom;
            setMeasuredDimension(widthSize, newHeight);
        }
    }
}