I have a TextView and I'd like to add a black border along its top and bottom borders. I tried adding android:drawableTop
and android:drawableBottom
to the TextView, but that only caused the entire view to become black.
<TextView
android:background="@android:color/green"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableTop="@android:color/black"
android:drawableBottom="@android:color/black"
android:text="la la la" />
Is there a way to easily add a top and bottom border to a View (in particular, a TextView) in Android?
Best Answer
In android 2.2 you could do the following.
Create an xml drawable such as /res/drawable/textlines.xml and assign this as a TextView's background property.
/res/drawable/textlines.xml
The down side to this is that you have to specify an opaque background colour, as transparencies won't work. (At least i thought they did but i was mistaken). In the above example you can see that the solid colour of the first shape #FFdddddd is copied in the 2nd shapes stroke colour.