You can also use a nine-patch drawable as the background, most of it transparent, the top-left edges having some pixels.
-- Kostya 2011/6/17 Prakash Iyer <[email protected]> > I'm not sure there is any XML way of doing this. You can extend TextView > (or whatever is the view that you are looking to have this border on) and > implement this in the onDraw. There should also be a way to write a Drawable > and do this which can then be extended to any View but I don't know enough > to suggest. > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Sapna Srivastav > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I am still getting the four boundaries on the layout. >> >> On Jun 16, 11:58 am, Rajiv <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Use the following shape tag: >> > >> > <padding android:left="1dp" >> > android:top="0dp" >> > android:right="1dp" >> > android:bottom="0dp" >> > /> >> > >> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sapna Srivastav < >> [email protected]>wrote: >> > >> > > Hi all. >> > >> > > I would like to create a layout having a shape that has border only on >> > > 2 sides: >> > > left and right, i.e. I want top and bottom to be open. How can I >> > > achieve that >> > > defining shape in XML? >> > >> > > Currently I have a normal 4 side border using the following shape XML >> > > definition: >> > >> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >> > > <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; >> > > android:layout_width="fill_parent" >> > > android:layout_height="fill_parent" >> > >> > > <solid android:color="#FFFFFF" >> > > /> >> > >> > > <stroke android:width="1dp" >> > > android:color="#0000FF" >> > > /> >> > >> > > <padding android:left="1dp" >> > > android:top="1dp" >> > > android:right="1dp" >> > > android:bottom="1dp" >> > > /> >> > > </shape> >> > >> > > Please help, its urgent. >> > > Thanks in advance. >> > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > > Groups "Android Developers" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > [email protected] >> > > For more options, visit this group at >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
