android - round rect border for layouts

Question

in my application I'm going to use a lot of layout "borders" which are a simple rounded rectangle. To test how it would look like I created a .png file with transparent background:

I just set the image as my layout background. The problem is that I need different proportions for other layouts and that would be a waste of time to create such images in Photoshop for all my layouts.

The questions: how can I do the same with the android API (maybe an XML shape) but allow the rectangle to be stretched to any dimension and still remain sharp?

Answer 1

You can use a drawable

Have bkg.xml in drawable folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"        android:shape="rectangle">     <solid android:color="#FFFFFF"/>     <stroke         android:width="3dp"         android:color="#0FECFF"/>     <padding         android:bottom="5dp"         android:left="5dp"         android:right="5dp"         android:top="5dp"/>     <corners         android:bottomLeftRadius="7dp"         android:bottomRightRadius="7dp"         android:topLeftRadius="7dp"         android:topRightRadius="7dp"/> </shape> 

Then set background

  android:background="@drawable/bkg" //to required view 

Snasp shot of graphical editor when set drawable background to textview.