How to increase hit area of Android button without scaling background?

you can use TouchDelegate API.

final View parent = (View) button.getParent();  // button: the view you want to enlarge hit area
parent.post( new Runnable() {
    public void run() { 
        final Rect rect = new Rect(); 
        button.getHitRect(rect); 
        rect.top -= 100;    // increase top hit area
        rect.left -= 100;   // increase left hit area
        rect.bottom += 100; // increase bottom hit area           
        rect.right += 100;  // increase right hit area
        parent.setTouchDelegate( new TouchDelegate( rect , button)); 
    } 
});