Android: 9-patch png is treated like a normal png

Question

I've made this 9-patch png and added it to the res/drawable folder:

It works nice in the example eclipse shows:

But on the emulator it looks messed up:

Why is this happening and how can I fix this?

EDIT: The border on which I've placed the black dots is white, not transparent. Not sure if that's got anything to do with it...

Answer 1

This probably happens because you have a small mistake with the black pixels you have set. Try to re-cut the edges of the picture and to add the black pixels all over again.

I had this problem too once and this helped me.

if the border is white then this is your problem it has to be pure black or nothing at all.

UPDATE: Try this image: