Android Question Long shot

Hello see Erels canvas object post on this thread https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/draw-any-shape.65721/#post-416165

You can also use images as the button's background with any shape you like. The button will be square but it will not look square.

Thank you for your reply, but that is the classic solution that i know already, and would like to avoid.
Why aren't there triangular (or customisable!) buttons? Makes sense, would economize space, and look good !
Really!

Buttons are discrete, binary, you pushed it or you did not.
Drawn, view-like shapes on a canvas, sometimes are a problem when touches become swipes and/or cross the lines.
Not to speak of the extra coding :-(

PS. I typed this simultaneously with Erels post. Have to think now about that.

Paul

Solved (for me).
Create a panel , load it with bitmaps() as app resquests,
put transparent views on top that receive the clicks.
Minimum coding, maximum effect.