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I’m developing a number of components for <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-slice_scaling|9-slices scaling> of images, like a button, background, etc. Asking community for a good name for this :slightly_smiling_face: Like how would you name a class that holds ImageBitmap and information about left, top, right and bottom sizes to render it?

9Patch? That's what Android ones are called :slightly_smiling_face:

9Patch is not a proper identifier :slightly_smiling_face: But thanks for the hint, I didn’t know it is supported in Android. But it’s not in Compose, right?

I see, it’s here <https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/NinePatch>

No it's not in compose... It's in the older Android system.
Yep..NinePatch :slightly_smiling_face:

It's useful for stuff like chat bubbles with tails

There's a proper name for this in the game Dev world. I think it's sprite.

Unity calls them 9-slicing sprites <https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/9SliceSprites.html>

In Qt it is called BorderImage
<https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-borderimage.html|https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-borderimage.html>

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Interesting that there are more complex scenarios, which have more than 9 slices… E.g. in addition to border part, they extract center part. I’m not sure how it works yet, but looks useful, too

AFAIK Android's 9 Patches can have for more than 9 slices