title: Scaling background image without distorting proportions in MIT App Inventor 2
body: <p>I'm a newbie to App Inventor and stumbled on a little problem. It seemed easy at the beginning but I did not find an answer yet: Basically it's about getting a background image to fit all kinds of different device aspect ratios without distorting the image's proportions.</p>
  
  <p>The orientation of my app will always be portrait (no landscape). To make the background picture fit every device size, I would like to center-align it horizontally (neither left- nor right-aligned) and make the picture's height always fill the screen's height. The width should scale proportionally (not distort the image)!. The left and right edges of the image can be cropped depending on the aspect ratio of the device (the main subject of the picture should be in the middle anyway, so whatever is cropped on the left and right is not that important).</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible this way in App Inventor? Or is there another solution?</p>
  
  <p>Any help will be gladly appreciated!
  Polar Bear</p>