Trying to draw a button: how to set a stroke color and how to “align” a gradient to the bottom without knowing the height?

Question

I am creating a button programmatically. It is rounded and has a gradient background, and works fine and looks nice, but I couldn\'t do two things I wanted:

1. Se

Answer 1

Try this....in drawable make a new xml file and set it where you want it..!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="rectangle" >

    <solid android:color="#e1e1e1" />

    <stroke
        android:width="2dp"
        android:color="#808080" />

    <corners android:radius="10dp" />

    <padding
        android:bottom="5dp"
        android:left="5dp"
        android:right="5dp"
        android:top="5dp" />

</shape>

Answer 2

You can use a GradientDrawable with setStroke(3, Color.WHITE) method. To make rounded corners, use this:

setShape(GradientDrawable.RECTANGLE);
setCornerRadii(new float[]{2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2});

Answer 3

In terms of your first question, I struggled with this as well, and it doesn't look like there are any suitable methods within Drawables themselves (I was using ShapeDrawable) or the Paint class. However, I was able to extend ShapeDrawable and override the draw method, as below, to give the same result:

public class CustomBorderDrawable extends ShapeDrawable {
    private Paint fillpaint, strokepaint;
    private static final int WIDTH = 3; 

    public CustomBorderDrawable(Shape s) {
        super(s);
        fillpaint = this.getPaint();
        strokepaint = new Paint(fillpaint);
        strokepaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
        strokepaint.setStrokeWidth(WIDTH);
        strokepaint.setARGB(255, 0, 0, 0);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Shape shape, Canvas canvas, Paint fillpaint) {
        shape.draw(canvas, fillpaint);
        shape.draw(canvas, strokepaint);
    }

    public void setFillColour(int c){
        fillpaint.setColor(c);
    }
}