How do I put a border around an Android textview?

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Is it possible to draw a border around a textview?

I posted one dirty solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45242147/4291937 — Gregor Ažbe, Jul 21 '17 at 16:09
Check out my [one-liner answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/49660160/8958408) below. — Protean, Apr 21 '18 at 13:54
With the **MaterialComponents** just use a **`MaterialShapeDrawable`** : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18781902/rounded-corner-for-textview-in-android/61768682#61768682 — Gabriele Mariotti, Aug 07 '20 at 08:40

Konstantin Burov · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-03T04:53:11.263

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You can set a shape drawable (a rectangle) as background for the view.

<TextView android:text="Some text" android:background="@drawable/back"/>

And rectangle drawable back.xml (put into res/drawable folder):

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
   <solid android:color="@android:color/white" />
   <stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#4fa5d5"/>
</shape>

You can use @android:color/transparent for the solid color to have a transparent background. You can also use padding to separate the text from the border. for more information see: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html

edited Apr 03 '17 at 04:53

answered Aug 16 '10 at 18:56

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What if I just want the top border? – happyhardik Aug 01 '12 at 17:55
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@whyoz His method adds unneeded complexity to view hierarchy. You will need two additional views (A layout container and the border view) to use his method. Thus if you have many views you need to add border to, your view tree will grow unmanagable. – Konstantin Burov Mar 28 '13 at 15:23
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@whyoz yet this method might be applied via styles an themes, while YongGu's method can't be used this way. – Konstantin Burov Mar 28 '13 at 15:25
Instead of a separate file in drawable, can we just add the code to the style.xml file? – Bilbo Baggins Jan 01 '14 at 00:06
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For **top border only**, see [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/q/1598119/1402846). – Pang Apr 07 '14 at 03:01
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You can use this tool [http://shapes.softartstudio.com](http://shapes.softartstudio.com/) to generate drawables. – Arda Basoglu Nov 17 '15 at 23:55
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This solution will kill ripple touch feedback! – zyamys May 23 '17 at 04:01
Maybe it's only possible since recent versions, but I have a one-liner answer. – Protean Apr 17 '18 at 07:03
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I can't belive that now days it still must be so difficult to do such banal things on android layouts – Apperside Feb 28 '20 at 14:29
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Thank you for this answer, @KonstantinBurov. I just found it and used it. – John Cowan Jan 02 '21 at 16:16

score 211 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

Let me summarize a few different (non-programmatic) methods.

Using a shape drawable

Save the following as an XML file in your drawable folder (for example, my_border.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="rectangle" >

    <!-- View background color -->
    <solid
        android:color="@color/background_color" >
    </solid>

    <!-- View border color and width -->
    <stroke
        android:width="1dp"
        android:color="@color/border_color" >
    </stroke>

    <!-- The radius makes the corners rounded -->
    <corners
        android:radius="2dp"   >
    </corners>

</shape>

Then just set it as the background to your TextView:

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textview1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/my_border" />

More help:

Using a 9-patch

A 9-patch is a stretchable background image. If you make an image with a border then it will give your TextView a border. All you need to do is make the image and then set it to the background in your TextView.

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textview1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/my_ninepatch_image" />

Here are some links that will show how to make a 9-patch image:

What if I just want the top border?

Using a layer-list

You can use a layer list to stack two rectangles on top of each other. By making the second rectangle just a little smaller than the first rectangle, you can make a border effect. The first (lower) rectangle is the border color and the second rectangle is the background color.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <!-- Lower rectangle (border color) -->
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="@color/border_color" />
        </shape>
    </item>

    <!-- Upper rectangle (background color) -->
    <item android:top="2dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="@color/background_color" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Setting android:top="2dp" offsets the top (makes it smaller) by 2dp. This allows the first (lower) rectangle to show through, giving a border effect. You can apply this to the TextView background the same way that the shape drawable was done above.

Here are some more links about layer lists:

Using a 9-patch

You can just make a 9-patch image with a single border. Everything else is the same as discussed above.

Using a View

This is kind of a trick but it works well if you need to add a seperator between two views or a border to a single TextView.

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <!-- This adds a border between the TextViews -->
    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="2dp"
        android:background="@android:color/black" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview2"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

Here are some more links:

Jeez man, a `border: 1px solid #999;` is not supposed to be *this* complicated. — Achshar, Feb 02 '18 at 23:51
What if I want border of textview, which is having shadow and ripple effect too? — Akash Dubey, Mar 16 '18 at 06:47
@AkashDubey, Sorry, I haven't done that before. I suggest you try each one separately and then combine them. If you get stuck, ask a new question on Stack Overflow. — Suragch, Mar 16 '18 at 07:44

score 50 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:38

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The simple way is to add a view for your TextView. Example for the bottom border line:

<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:text="@string/title"
        android:id="@+id/title_label"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"/>
    <View
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0.2dp"
        android:id="@+id/separator"
        android:visibility="visible"
        android:background="@android:color/darker_gray"/>

</LinearLayout>

For the other direction borders, please adjust the location of the separator view.

edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:38

Peter Mortensen

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answered Nov 22 '12 at 01:59

Young Gu

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For my experience this solution, on old devices, has a quiet visible impact on the app performance. – Roberto Lombardini Sep 23 '13 at 13:16
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This is a horrible solution from a view inflation perspective. You create 3 new view elements and add one more level in view hierarchy depth – philipp Nov 15 '13 at 23:26
Worst solution because of the view inflation perspective as philipp said. Do you know that textView have specific xml tag to just do that: define a picture to be draw left/right/top/bottom aroud your TextView, and they are known as android:drawable**** – Mathias Seguy Android2ee Dec 02 '16 at 11:06

score 34 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 17 '13 at 20:25

I have solved this issue by extending the textview and drawing a border manually. I even added so you can select if a border is dotted or dashed.

public class BorderedTextView extends TextView {
        private Paint paint = new Paint();
        public static final int BORDER_TOP = 0x00000001;
        public static final int BORDER_RIGHT = 0x00000002;
        public static final int BORDER_BOTTOM = 0x00000004;
        public static final int BORDER_LEFT = 0x00000008;

        private Border[] borders;

        public BorderedTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
            super(context, attrs, defStyle);
            init();
        }

        public BorderedTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
            super(context, attrs);
            init();
        }

        public BorderedTextView(Context context) {
            super(context);
            init();
        }
        private void init(){
            paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
            paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
            paint.setStrokeWidth(4);        
        }
        @Override
        protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
            super.onDraw(canvas);
            if(borders == null) return;

            for(Border border : borders){
                paint.setColor(border.getColor());
                paint.setStrokeWidth(border.getWidth());

                if(border.getStyle() == BORDER_TOP){
                    canvas.drawLine(0, 0, getWidth(), 0, paint);                
                } else
                if(border.getStyle() == BORDER_RIGHT){
                    canvas.drawLine(getWidth(), 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), paint);
                } else
                if(border.getStyle() == BORDER_BOTTOM){
                    canvas.drawLine(0, getHeight(), getWidth(), getHeight(), paint);
                } else
                if(border.getStyle() == BORDER_LEFT){
                    canvas.drawLine(0, 0, 0, getHeight(), paint);
                }
            }
        }

        public Border[] getBorders() {
            return borders;
        }

        public void setBorders(Border[] borders) {
            this.borders = borders;
        }
}

And the border class:

public class Border {
    private int orientation;
    private int width;
    private int color = Color.BLACK;
    private int style;
    public int getWidth() {
        return width;
    }
    public void setWidth(int width) {
        this.width = width;
    }
    public int getColor() {
        return color;
    }
    public void setColor(int color) {
        this.color = color;
    }
    public int getStyle() {
        return style;
    }
    public void setStyle(int style) {
        this.style = style;
    }
    public int getOrientation() {
        return orientation;
    }
    public void setOrientation(int orientation) {
        this.orientation = orientation;
    }
    public Border(int Style) {
        this.style = Style;
    }
}

Hope this helps someone :)

It can't work correctly, as the code shows it draws the borders at the half size of the defined value — ucMedia, Apr 30 '18 at 19:16

score 17 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 04 '18 at 20:47

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Simplest solution I've found (and which actually works):

<TextView
    ...
    android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background" />

answered Apr 04 '18 at 20:47

Protean

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Is it possible to apply this to all textviews from one place? – Ian Warburton Jul 27 '18 at 18:25
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Nice for a quickie. But depending on the version of the running device, this can have very unusual effects. This is because Google keeps changing how EditTexts look (you gotta keep in fashion!) – SMBiggs Aug 01 '19 at 16:51

score 14 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:49

You can set the border by two methods. One is by drawable and the second is programmatic.

Using Drawable

<shape>
    <solid android:color="@color/txt_white"/>
    <stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="@color/border_gray"/>
    <corners android:bottomLeftRadius="10dp"
             android:bottomRightRadius="0dp"
             android:topLeftRadius="10dp"
             android:topRightRadius="0dp"/>
    <padding android:bottom="0dip"
             android:left="0dip"
             android:right="0dip"
             android:top="0dip"/>
</shape>

Programmatic

public static GradientDrawable backgroundWithoutBorder(int color) {

    GradientDrawable gdDefault = new GradientDrawable();
    gdDefault.setColor(color);
    gdDefault.setCornerRadii(new float[] { radius, radius, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                           radius, radius });
    return gdDefault;
}

How would that shape XML relate to the textView? – Neo42 Jan 30 '18 at 20:57 — Neo42, Jan 30 '18 at 20:57

score 14 · Answer 7 · edited Jul 26 '11 at 20:08

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I was just looking at a similar answer-- it's able to be done with a Stroke and the following override:

@Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapView, boolean shadow) {

Paint strokePaint = new Paint();
strokePaint.setARGB(255, 0, 0, 0);
strokePaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
strokePaint.setTextSize(16);
strokePaint.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);
strokePaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
strokePaint.setStrokeWidth(2);

Paint textPaint = new Paint();
textPaint.setARGB(255, 255, 255, 255);
textPaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
textPaint.setTextSize(16);
textPaint.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);

canvas.drawText("Some Text", 100, 100, strokePaint);
canvas.drawText("Some Text", 100, 100, textPaint);

super.draw(canvas, mapView, shadow); 
}

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Great! My only concern is that the stroke is ugly at the corners when I use drawRoundRect, both on phone and in the emulator. – erdomester May 15 '12 at 21:40
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@erdomester Maybe Paint StrokePaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG); will solve "ugly at the corners" issue – P-RAD Sep 18 '15 at 00:05

score 11 · Answer 8 · edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:42

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You can add something like this in your code:

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       android:shape="rectangle" >
    <solid android:color="#ffffff" />
    <stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#4fa5d5"/>
</shape>

edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:42

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Why is stroke necessary? – IgorGanapolsky Aug 21 '14 at 18:52
@IgorGanapolsky, stroke create the actual border? – Tash Pemhiwa Apr 25 '16 at 10:18

score 11 · Answer 9 · edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:36

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I found a better way to put a border around a TextView.

Use a nine-patch image for the background. It's pretty simple, the SDK comes with a tool to make the 9-patch image, and it involves absolutely no coding.

The link is http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html#nine-patch.

edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:36

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answered Feb 25 '12 at 04:28

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Useful, yes, but how is this better? – aggregate1166877 Mar 13 '13 at 10:25
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Using a shape as the accepted answer says is better than a 9-patch, an XML file is more flexible than a graphic asset – Jose_GD Dec 12 '13 at 21:22
Sure, if you want to be limited to creating the graphics you want programmatically, then it is more flexible. – Nick Dec 13 '13 at 19:58
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The shape-approach is useless.Perhaps I am the only one experiencing,that the tag "solid" always gets processed,no matter if set to transparent or not.And If I want to create a BORDER,I mean, a BORDER and not a rectangle with coloured inner and otherwise coloured borderlines. And it is NEVER transparent solid. It always disturbes the colour. Also,an class,which inherits from another,should also have all features, because it is inherited. really cannot understand,why elementary OO-design-guidelines are broken by android. For example, I inherited from button. All features gone. Why ? – icbytes Jan 10 '14 at 10:31
Also using 9patch is visibly slower because its much heavier to load. – Jeremie D Mar 17 '14 at 21:23
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@Jeremie Visibly slower? How do you observe it? – IgorGanapolsky Aug 21 '14 at 18:49
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“Limited” and “programmatically” don’t belong in the same sentence. – mxcl Oct 20 '17 at 00:07

score 10 · Answer 10 · edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:41

Check the link below to make rounded corners http://androidcookbook.com/Recipe.seam?recipeId=2318

The drawable folder, under res, in an Android project is not restricted to bitmaps (PNG or JPG files), but it can also hold shapes defined in XML files.

These shapes can then be reused in the project. A shape can be used to put a border around a layout. This example shows a rectangular border with curved corners. A new file called customborder.xml is created in the drawable folder (in Eclipse use the File menu and select New then File, with the drawable folder selected type in the file name and click Finish).

The XML defining the border shape is entered:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle">
    <corners android:radius="20dp"/>
    <padding android:left="10dp" android:right="10dp" android:top="10dp" android:bottom="10dp"/>
    <solid android:color="#CCCCCC"/>
</shape>

The attribute android:shape is set to rectangle (shape files also support oval, line, and ring). Rectangle is the default value, so this attribute could be left out if it is a rectangle being defined. See the Android documentation on shapes at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#Shape for detailed information on a shape file.

The element corners sets the rectangle corners to be rounded. It is possible to set a different radius on each corner (see the Android reference).

The padding attributes are used to move the contents of the View to which the shape is applied, to prevent the contents overlapping the border.

The border color here is set to a light gray (CCCCCC hexadecimal RGB value).

Shapes also support gradients, but that is not being used here. Again, see the Android resources to see how a gradient is defined. The shape is applied to the laypout using android:background="@drawable/customborder".

Within the layout other views can be added as normal. In this example, a single TextView has been added, and the text is white (FFFFFF hexadecimal RGB). The background is set to blue, plus some transparency to reduce the brightness (A00000FF hexadecimal alpha RGB value). Finally the layout is offset from the screen edge by placing it into another layout with a small amount of padding. The full layout file is thus:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent"
              android:padding="5dp">
    <LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical"
                  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                  android:background="@drawable/customborder">
        <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                android:text="Text View"
                android:textSize="20dp"
                android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
                android:gravity="center_horizontal"
                android:background="#A00000FF" />
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Link only answers are highly discouraged, as the links tend to break at some point in the future. Pull relevant portions of your link into this answer so that the information remains available, even if the link does not. — Andy, Apr 06 '14 at 18:21

Roman Panaget · Answer 11 · 2019-02-21T17:44:10.390

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I have a way to do it very simply, and I'd like to share it.

When I want to square mi TextViews, I just put them in a LinearLayout. I set the background color of my LinearLayout, and I add a margin to my TextView. The result is exactly as if you square the TextView.

edited Feb 21 '19 at 17:44

answered Aug 14 '15 at 18:13

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score 4 · Answer 12 · edited Mar 10 '21 at 08:59

You can create custom background for your text view. Steps

Go to your project.
Go to resources and right click to drawable.
Click on New -> Drawable Resource File
Give name to you file
Paste following code in the file

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <stroke
        android:width="1dp"
        android:color="@color/colorBlack" />
    <padding
        android:bottom="1dp"
        android:left="1dp"
        android:right="1dp"
        android:top="1dp" />
    <corners android:radius="6dp" />
    <solid android:color="#ffffffff" />
</shape>

For your text view where you want to use it as backgroud,

android:background="@drawable/your_fileName"

score 3 · Answer 13 · answered Jul 03 '20 at 17:44

With the Material Components Library you can use the MaterialShapeDrawable.

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview"
        .../>

Then you can programmatically apply a MaterialShapeDrawable:

    TextView textView = findViewById(R.id.textview);
    MaterialShapeDrawable shapeDrawable = new MaterialShapeDrawable();
    shapeDrawable.setFillColor(ContextCompat.getColorStateList(this,android.R.color.transparent));
    shapeDrawable.setStroke(1.0f, ContextCompat.getColor(this,R.color....));
    ViewCompat.setBackground(textView,shapeDrawable);

score 2 · Answer 14 · answered May 15 '18 at 22:05

Changing Konstantin Burov answer because not work in my case:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="@android:color/white" />
            <stroke android:width="2dip" android:color="#4fa5d5"/>
            <corners android:radius="7dp"/>
        </shape>
    </item>
</selector>

compileSdkVersion 26 (Android 8.0), minSdkVersion 21 (Android 5.0), targetSdkVersion 26, implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.1.0', gradle:4.1

score 1 · Answer 15 · edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:47

Here is my 'simple' helper class which returns an ImageView with the border. Just drop this in your utils folder, and call it like this:

ImageView selectionBorder = BorderDrawer.generateBorderImageView(context, borderWidth, borderHeight, thickness, Color.Blue);

Here is the code.

/**
 * Because creating a border is Rocket Science in Android.
 */
public class BorderDrawer
{
    public static ImageView generateBorderImageView(Context context, int borderWidth, int borderHeight, int borderThickness, int color)
    {
        ImageView mask = new ImageView(context);

        // Create the square to serve as the mask
        Bitmap squareMask = Bitmap.createBitmap(borderWidth - (borderThickness*2), borderHeight - (borderThickness*2), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(squareMask);

        Paint paint = new Paint();
        paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
        paint.setColor(color);
        canvas.drawRect(0.0f, 0.0f, (float)borderWidth, (float)borderHeight, paint);

        // Create the darkness bitmap
        Bitmap solidColor = Bitmap.createBitmap(borderWidth, borderHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        canvas = new Canvas(solidColor);

        paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
        paint.setColor(color);
        canvas.drawRect(0.0f, 0.0f, borderWidth, borderHeight, paint);

        // Create the masked version of the darknessView
        Bitmap borderBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(borderWidth, borderHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        canvas = new Canvas(borderBitmap);

        Paint clearPaint = new Paint();
        clearPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR));

        canvas.drawBitmap(solidColor, 0, 0, null);
        canvas.drawBitmap(squareMask, borderThickness, borderThickness, clearPaint);

        clearPaint.setXfermode(null);

        ImageView borderView = new ImageView(context);
        borderView.setImageBitmap(borderBitmap);

        return borderView;
    }
}

How do I use `selectionBorder`? – Tash Pemhiwa Apr 25 '16 at 10:21 — Tash Pemhiwa, Apr 25 '16 at 10:21
@TashPemhiwa Button.setBackgroundDrawable(); – NinjaOnSafari Sep 08 '17 at 14:09 — NinjaOnSafari, Sep 08 '17 at 14:09

Mete · Answer 16 · 2014-07-11T17:21:35.093

This may help you.

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/textbox"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:background="@android:color/darker_gray" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_margin="3dp"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="@string/app_name"
        android:textSize="20dp" />

</RelativeLayout

score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Jan 10 '18 at 09:25

Create a border view with the background color as the color of the border and size of your text view. set border view padding as the width of the border. Set text view background color as the color you want for the text view. Now add your text view inside the border view.

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Feb 16 '19 at 05:11

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Try this:

<shape>
    <solid android:color="@color/txt_white"/>
    <stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="@color/border_black"/>
</shape>

answered Feb 16 '19 at 05:11

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score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Aug 12 '19 at 09:00

There are a lot of ways to add a border to a textView. The simplest one is by creating a custom drawable and setting it as android:background="@drawable/textview_bg" for your textView.

The textview_bg.xml will go under Drawables and can be something like this. You can have a solid or a gradient background (or nothing if not required), corners to add a corner radius and stroke to add border.

textview_bg.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:shape="rectangle">

        <corners
            android:radius="@dimen/dp_10"/>

        <gradient
            android:angle="225"
            android:endColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:startColor="#E0E0E0" />

        <stroke
            android:width="2dp"
            android:color="#000000"/>

    </shape>

score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Jan 14 '20 at 07:16

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  <View
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="2dp"
    android:background="@android:color/black" />

this code enough you can place wherever you want

answered Jan 14 '20 at 07:16

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score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Feb 10 '20 at 09:09

setBackground on your xml textview,

add rounded_textview.xml file into your drawable directory.

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
   <solid android:color="@android:color/white" />
   <stroke android:width="2dip" android:color="#4f5g52"/>
</shape>

set drawable file in textView background.

score -2 · Answer 22 · edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:43

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Actually, it is very simple. If you want a simple black rectangle behind the Textview, just add android:background="@android:color/black" within the TextView tags. Like this:

<TextView
    android:textSize="15pt" android:textColor="#ffa7ff04"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/webView1"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
    android:background="@android:color/black"/>

edited Jan 02 '17 at 00:43

Peter Mortensen

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he ask for border not full background. – Guy Jan 27 '20 at 18:43

How do I put a border around an Android textview?

22 Answers22

Using a shape drawable

Using a 9-patch

What if I just want the top border?

Using Drawable

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