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Chronos
Chronos

Reputation: 1962

How to draw borders and separators on a View

I'm developing an App, and I need to draw borders and separators on a View, like the eBay app.

I think on a combination of shapes and view with 1dp. There is another easy way?

ebay App. Many thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1009

Answers (3)

Kevin Galligan
Kevin Galligan

Reputation: 17352

Create a 9-patch image for the outside border. Use that as the background resource and it will give you the rounded corners with solid border. For dividers, you can create a simple view and have another background resource that's a simple image with the same color as the border in the 9-patch.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

    <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:background="@drawable/roundedborder"
            android:orientation="vertical">

        <!-- Put Saved Searches display code here.  Probably LinearLayout/horizonal -->
        <TextView
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="1dp"
                android:background="@drawable/simpleborder"
                android:layout_margin="3dp"/> <!-- Spacer! -->

        <!-- Put Favorite sellers display code here.  Probably LinearLayout/horizonal -->

    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 1

Gallal
Gallal

Reputation: 4262

If you mean how the views are grouped together so that some have curved corners on top, others in the bottom plus padding or a margin, and others with no curved corners at all, then this is one way to do it.

If you are using ListView with ListAdapter then When overriding getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) determine from position what view should be returned and return it. You can change the view's padding and margins before returning it.

Also, it'll be more efficient if you override getItemViewType(int position) and return a constant representation a view type for a specific position so that Android can reuse views and you wont have to inflate a new one or change the attributes every time.

Upvotes: 0

Yashwanth Kumar
Yashwanth Kumar

Reputation: 29141

or you could use margins at the bottom, for the view which is just above the empty space.

android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"

Upvotes: 0

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