How to get gravity 'bottom' working on a drawable in xml

Question

I have a simple aim. I want a light grey background on my FrameLayout with a black dividing line underneath it (only undernearth, not all around). So far I have this:

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Answer 1

I've struggled a lot with this as well. Basically, to create a border at the bottom, you have to think in opposite direction from what you expect. You start with a rectangle with your Border color. On top of that, you draw the actual color, with an offset from the bottom. I use this:

Or, as Juan Pablo Saraceno suggested :