How to tile a background image in Android?

I'm still using in my layout definition the same way to define the background, with a androidbackground parameter, with the path to your repeating background ( actually that was the point : having a consistent way for background, let them be tiled or not )

Here's the contents of my main.xml layout file,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

android:background="@drawable/backrepeat"

android:gravity="center_horizontal">

<TextView

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="@string/hello"

/>

</LinearLayout>




in my drawable directory, I have a back.png file (  the background I want to tile ), and I create this new backrepeat.xml file :




<bitmap
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="@drawable/scale1"
android:tileMode="repeat"
android:dither="true" />