Custom Buttons in Android: How to get border/edge/frame when I read the background from xml?

Question

Using Android Shapes in xml I have defined a gradient which I use as the background for a button.

This all works nice, but there\'s no edge surrounding the button. I wou

Answer 1

I've had the same problem, what i observed is stroke is not applying to button as border at design time but at run time i see the border.

I jst used the following same code

as steve hanley said abvoe you miss the android: for the color attribute.

Hope this helps somebody....