Xamarin Android: Native image scaling, images are pixelated
If you use Android’s native image scaling, from ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, to xxxhdpi, and have all the image resource in the right directory of your Xamarin.Android project folder, and find the pictures displaying pixelated: Make sure, you are correctly set the Build action for each images to AndroidResource. When adding an existing item to the resources folder from Windows version of VisualStudio’s browse dialog, the Build action will be set to BundleResource, and won’t appear in the Resources.designer.cs file, so it will be unavailable to use from code. If the picture is displaying, but it is pixelated, you may check the higher DPI version image files, have the correct buid action
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Hi, I am András,
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