How to Add a Border to the Top and Bottom of an Android View

Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View?

In android 2.2 you could do the following.

Create an xml drawable such as /res/drawable/textlines.xml and assign this as a TextView's background property.

<TextView
android:text="My text with lines above and below"
android:background="@drawable/textlines"
/>

/res/drawable/textlines.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item>
      <shape 
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
            <solid android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />

        </shape>
   </item>

   <item android:top="1dp" android:bottom="1dp"> 
      <shape 
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />
            <solid android:color="#00000000" />
        </shape>
   </item>

</layer-list>

The down side to this is that you have to specify an opaque background colour, as transparencies won't work. (At least i thought they did but i was mistaken). In the above example you can see that the solid colour of the first shape #FFdddddd is copied in the 2nd shapes stroke colour.

Add only top and bottom border on LinearLayout

Make this two file and put this code. you can set border top and bottom border,

main.xml

<TextView
      android:text="This is textline"
      android:background="@drawable/border_set"
/>

border_set.xml

This file located into full path project_root/res/drawable/border_set.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item>
      <shape 
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
            <solid android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />

        </shape>
   </item>

   <item android:top="1dp" android:bottom="1dp"> 
      <shape 
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#000" />
            <solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
        </shape>
   </item>

</layer-list>

Way to add a border of different color to top and bottom edge of an android view

You're quite close to what you want, what you need to do is add another item below your default item. Those two items are your top/bottom borders. By add bottom/top 1dp to both, you reveal the two colours.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
    android:bottom="1dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#000000"/>
    </shape>
</item>

<item
    android:top="1dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#000000"/>
    </shape>
</item>

<item
    android:top="1dp" android:bottom="1dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#ffffff"/>
    </shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

How to create border at bottom only?

Your problem is different or you are unable to explain it, however I got it

1. Crete two files in drawable, bottom_selected and bottom_unselected

Bottom_selected.xml

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

    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <solid android:color="#001EFF" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:bottom="3dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
        </shape>
    </item>

</layer-list>

Bottom_unselected.xml

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

    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <solid android:color="#001EFF" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:bottom="1dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
        </shape>
    </item>

</layer-list>

Now your Buttons

 <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/fragment_container"
        android:layout_marginLeft="54dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="110dp"
        android:background="@drawable/bottom_selected"
        android:text="Button" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button01"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/button1"
        android:background="@drawable/bottom_unselected"
        android:text="Button" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button02"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/Button01"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/Button01"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/Button01"
        android:background="@drawable/bottom_unselected"
        android:text="Button" />

Final View

How to put a border around an Android TextView?

You can set a shape drawable (a rectangle) as background for the view.

<TextView android:text="Some text" android:background="@drawable/back"/>

And rectangle drawable back.xml (put into res/drawable folder):

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
   <solid android:color="@android:color/white" />
   <stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#4fa5d5"/>
</shape>

You can use @android:color/transparent for the solid color to have a transparent background.
You can also use padding to separate the text from the border.
for more information see: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html

how to set top border for bottom navigation bar in android as shown in image

You can try this: add a View element above BottomNavigationView

<View
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="4dp"
    android:layout_above="@+id/bottom_navigation"
    android:background="#000000"></View>

<android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView
    android:id="@+id/bottom_navigation"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="56dp"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    app:itemBackground="@color/BottomNavigationBgColor"
    app:itemIconTint="@color/CelestialBlue"
    app:itemTextColor="@color/CelestialBlue"
    app:menu="@menu/bottom_navigation_main" />

how to set border linear layout on top and bottom

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

<item
    android:bottom="1dp"
    android:left="-2dp"
    android:right="-2dp"
    android:top="1dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
        <stroke
            android:width="1dp"
            android:color="@android:color/darker_gray" />

        <solid android:color="@android:color/transparent" />

        <padding
            android:bottom="10dp"
            android:left="10dp"
            android:right="10dp"
            android:top="10dp" />
    </shape>
</item>

Use the above layout as backgroud border. It will give you a very good effect. change the color and padding if you wish. Add this as xml in your drawable folder and make this drawable as background for the layout.

Hope this helps.

how to set border bottom of a view in android

this will work for you just change 3dp to 1dp for android:bottom

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

            <stroke android:color="@color/colorPrimary" android:width="2dp"/>
        </shape>
    </item>

    <item android:bottom="1dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="@android:color/white"/>
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Applying a top and bottom border to TextView using background doesn't work, but foreground does

Exploring as in the discussion in the question comments with Zain, the theme (under styles) I was using had set the backgroundTint to the background color of the activity (and other components in which the TextView was lying).

So, even though the background was being set as the border drawable, it was being tinted to the color (by default) of the background of its parent, so the background was indistinguishable.

Note however that setting an explicit backgroundTint on the TextView (while the one in styles existed), did not make the background visible, so the backgroundTint from default styling had precedence over the one set individually.

This behavior seems to contradict Style hierarchy
If I misinterpreted, kindly correct me

TL;DR: If you're having a similar issue, check the backgroundTint property in styles.xml among the other fixes (the drawable itself).

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