Android How to draw a regular polygon via xml or programical

Question

Is there any way to draw polygonal shapes on Android xml layouts?

or is any helper class as library to draw them?

Answer 1

You can create custom drawable and shapes as drawable resources.

Right click on the "drawable" folder in Android Studio and select New->Drawable Resource File.

Here is a decent tutorial for shapes and strokes to get started.

Here is some example shapes ready to use.

Here is documentation for some more complex things you can do with drawables.