I have the exact same problem as this guy, only the solutions proposed don't work for me.
my 9 Patch Image stopped working
In eclipse, my 9-patches look as they should, but when running the app on my device, they stretch like a normal png-image.
I just updated to the latest sdk version, then I tried the fix proposed in the question linked above, but it didn't help.
Is there anyone else who has the same problem, and for whom the mentioned fix doesn't help?
Help would be much appreciated!
After my happy comment in April, the error reappeared after some image manipulation. Then I got it working by redrawing the image borders. I now believe that the problem was that one (or more) of the pixels on the border was not completely transparent. I find it odd, though, that the compiler doesn't react on that, the file suffix was .9.png, after all... And I don't understand why it was shown correctly in the eclipse preview.