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Is there a way to create this on XML ? 2 colors box

Is there a way to create these two boxes with XML only (beside the icon of course)
The tob box has rounded bordered around it and shadow but inside it divided to two parts which one is pink background and one is white background (without stroke between them)

Create 2 XML drawables
rect_colored.xml
<shape android:shape="rectangle"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#color/colorAccent"/>
<corners android:bottomRightRadius="5dp"
android:topRightRadius="5dp"/>
</shape>
rect_white.xml
<shape android:shape="rectangle"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<stroke android:color="#color/colorPrimaryDark"
android:width="2dp"/>
<corners android:radius="5dp"/>
</shape>
Position the drawables appropriately
This will work differently with different root views. I'm using ConstraintLayout for simplicity
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:background="#drawable/rect_white"
android:id="#+id/frameLayout"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
android:layout_marginBottom="8dp">
<!--Content here-->
</FrameLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="36dp"
android:layout_height="36dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="0dp"
android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
android:layout_marginTop="0dp"
android:background="#drawable/rect_colored"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="#+id/frameLayout"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="#+id/frameLayout"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#+id/frameLayout">
<!--Content here-->
</FrameLayout>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
The output

Just use a LayerList with the shapes you need nested. May take a little tweaking, but it is simple enough. You can even add in your bitmaps for the left icon if you like. Just make your layers, and adjust from the sides and handle your corners.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:left="50dp">
<shape
android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#0000FF" />
<corners android:bottomRightRadius="20dp" android:topRightRadius="20dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:right="50dp">
<shape
android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#ffffff" />
<corners android:bottomLeftRadius="20dp" android:topLeftRadius="20dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

Here simply you create a one xml file & drawable file to create shape & border.
MyActivity.Xml
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/ll_mobile_img"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
android:paddingLeft="15dp"
android:paddingRight="15dp">
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rr_verification_code"
android:layout_width="120dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.3">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/et_verification_code"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/ractangle_mobile_white_border"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="Enter Code"
android:drawableLeft="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:imeOptions="actionGo"
android:inputType="number|textAutoComplete"
android:maxLength="6"
android:paddingBottom="15dp"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingTop="16dp"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textColorHint="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="18sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/ll_country_img"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:background="#android:color/white"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_verification_code_img"
android:layout_width="38dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="#string/globe"
android:textColor="#color/blue_font_color"
android:textSize="20dp" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Drawable:- ractangle_mobile_white_border.xml
[![<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
<layer-list>
<item>
<shape>
<gradient android:angle="360" android:endColor="#android:color/transparent" android:startColor="#android:color/transparent" />
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#android:color/white" />
<corners android:bottomRightRadius="1dp" android:topRightRadius="1dp"/>
<padding android:bottom="3dp" android:left="0dp" android:right="3dp" android:top="3dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
</item>
</selector>
Hope this helps you.

How to create square button in android for background?

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I want to create square shape in background. Android studio shape doesn,t support square.How to create manually in border.xml?
Here is my code
border.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#9294a3" />
<stroke
android:width="2dp"
android:color="#c2bbbb" />
<corners android:radius="2dp" />
</shape>
my.xml
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:background="#9294a3">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="2"
android:textColor="#c2bbbb"
android:textSize="30sp"
android:background="#drawable/border"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout

Button like this
xml
<TextView
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="150dp"
android:background="#drawable/border"
android:text="2"
android:textSize="50sp"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:padding="5dp"/>
Style (drawable/border.xml)
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#color/colorGray"/>
<stroke android:color="#color/colorBlack"
android:width="4dp" />
<!--corners allow us to make the rounded corners button-->
<corners android:radius="15dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</selector>

<TextView
android:id="#+id/input_name"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:direction="center"
android:gravity="center"/>

you should specify shape='Rectangle' for square it will be better.
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:padding="10dp"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#9294a3" />
<stroke
android:width="2dp"
android:color="#c2bbbb" />
<corners android:radius="2dp" />

change background with animation when user clicks on it

I used one LinearLayout in my activity for changing two views. Here, i used two textviews. When user clicks on linear layout i change views as per my requirnments. xml file is here,
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#drawable/customswitchselector"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:layout_below="#+id/linearTab"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
android:layout_marginRight="30dp"
android:showText="true"
android:id="#+id/switch1"
android:checked="false"
android:weightSum="2">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_switch1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:paddingTop="5dp"
android:paddingBottom="5dp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="#272351"
style="bold" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_switch_2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:paddingTop="5dp"
android:paddingBottom="5dp"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
style="bold"
/>
</LinearLayout>
These two images show my two conditions. I have done enough to change this. Now i want to do animation while i am changing background for textviews on layout clicks. I have checked transitiondrawable example but it not helpful to me.
customswitchselector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_checked="true">
<shape android:dither="true" android:shape="rectangle" android:useLevel="false" android:visible="true">
<gradient android:angle="270" android:endColor="#ffffff" android:startColor="#ffffff" />
<corners android:radius="30dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:state_checked="false">
<shape android:dither="true" android:shape="rectangle" android:useLevel="false" android:visible="true">
<gradient android:angle="270" android:endColor="#ffffff" android:startColor="#ffffff" />
<corners android:radius="30dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</selector>
custom_track.xml This is used for textview with blue background
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:dither="true"
android:shape="rectangle"
android:useLevel="false"
android:visible="true">
<gradient
android:angle="270"
android:endColor="#292850"
android:startColor="#292850" />
<corners android:radius="30dp" />
<size
android:width="100dp"
android:height="30dp" />
</shape>

A possibility would be to set the white drawable as background of a FrameLayout and add a View for the blue oval and two TextViews for the titles to it.
To still acchieve that the views takes exactly the half of the container you could use PercenFrameLayout (read more about it in the official docu). To use it you need to add this dependency to your build.gradle: compile 'com.android.support:percent:25.2.0'
After creating the layout you just animate the gravity of the blue oval from left to right or the other way round.
So your layout would look like this:
<PercentFrameLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
android:background="#drawable/white_oval"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<!-- blue oval -->
<View
android:id="#+id/blue_oval"
android:gravity="start"
android:background="#drawable/blue_oval"
app:layout_widthPercent="50%"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:transformPivotX="0dp" />
<!--2 textviews-->
<TextView
app:layout_widthPercent="50%"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="left"
android:gravity="start"/>
<TextView
app:layout_widthPercent="50%"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="right"
android:gravity="end"/>
</FrameLayout>
Then in your code animate the gravity change of the blue oval like this:
private void animateGravity(int toGravity) {
LayoutTransition layoutTransition = container.getLayoutTransition();
layoutTransition.enableTransitionType(LayoutTransition.CHANGING);
layoutTransition.setDuration(YOUR_ANIMATION_DURATION);
layoutTransition.setInterpolator(LayoutTransition.CHANGING, new AccelerateDecelerateInterpolator());
FrameLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = (LayoutParams) blueOvalView.getLayoutParams();
layoutParams.gravity = toGravity;
blueOvalView.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);
}

Design XML Button Android

Here is an example of an app that used XML to design button.
How can i have the same design with XML?
How make my buttons look like it is floating just like in the image below?

I think you will need to use a shape drawable with a layered list, here is an example of a button that has a different color on the top and bottom (the drop shadow effect). You will set this as the background attribute of the Button.
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:radius="2dp" />
<solid android:color="#color/button_border_dark" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:top="1dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:radius="2dp" />
<solid android:color="#color/button_border_light" />
</shape>
</item>
<item
android:bottom="1dp"
android:top="1dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:radius="2dp" />
<solid android:color="#color/button_general_color" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

Here is the XML of the Button. You can also use custom typeface as well as shadows to make it the way you want.
<Button
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/holo_blue_dark"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:shadowColor="#android:color/holo_blue_light"
android:id="#+id/btnClickMe"
android:text="Click Me!"
/>

Use this one....
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginLeft="25dp"
android:layout_marginRight="25dp"
android:background="#drawable/selected" // selected is the name of your custom file
android:text="Register"
android:textColor="#fff" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginLeft="25dp"
android:layout_marginRight="25dp"
android:background="#37a8f7"
android:text="Login"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
android:textColor="#fff" />
</LinearLayout>
you can make custom file selected.xml in drawable folder for red button.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#ff0000"/>
<corners android:radius="1dp"/>
<padding android:left="3dp" android:top="2dp"
android:right="3dp" android:bottom="2dp" />
</shape>
and set it to your red button.
And you can make same as for your blue button.

how to add bottom border in relativelayout

<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" android:background="#drawable/settings_border" android:padding="1dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="15dip" android:layout_marginRight="15dip" android:layout_marginTop="5dip">
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/map_refresh"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/settings_selector_up"
android:padding="15dp">
<TextView android:id="#+id/Text1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="Map refresh period">
</TextView>
<TextView android:id="#+id/TextView09"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="1 min"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:paddingRight="5dp">
</TextView>
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/own_location"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:padding="15dp"
android:background="#drawable/settings_selector_mid">
<TextView android:id="#+id/Text1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="Own location update period">
</TextView>
<TextView android:id="#+id/TextView09"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="1 min"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:paddingRight="5dp">
</TextView>
</RelativeLayout>
I want set only bottom border in relativelayout. I want to dispaly listview style but not using listview. Lets say each listitem is relativlayout. I want set only bottom border so its look like a listview's divider.

I hope I understood what you said.
in the res folder create a new folder (if you don't already have it) named drawable
there create an xml named "borders.xml"
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true"><shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle">
<gradient android:angle="90" android:centerColor="#6da23f" android:endColor="#8bc45d" android:startColor="#2f481c" />
<stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="#999999" />
<padding android:bottom="4dp" android:left="3dp" android:right="3dp" android:top="6dp" />
<corners android:radius="10px"/>
</shape>
</item>
<item>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle">
<gradient android:angle="90" android:centerColor="#6da23f" android:endColor="#8bc45d" android:startColor="#4c8a39" />
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FFFFFF" />
<padding android:bottom="4dp" android:left="3dp" android:right="3dp" android:top="6dp" />
<corners android:radius="10px"/>
</shape>
</item>
</selector>
You can further edit it as you like.
Then select the layout from the Outline and click Background properties, and select the borders xml that you created.
This will create borders for all 4. Alternatively, you can add a simple
<View android:layout_width="1dip"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FFFFFF" />
line and add it to the bottom of your layout and change the color/size to your liking.

For some reason the other solutions didn't work for me - all borders were shown no matter how I changed it. This worked:
<?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="#color/gray" />
<solid android:color="#color/gray" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:bottom="1dp">
<shape
android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#color/white" />
<solid android:color="#color/white" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
The color of the border is gray and the background is white for the container (LinearLayout in my example). You can simply change the second item to make the border thicker or have border on the top/left/right.
This is how the layout xml looks like:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/searchWrapper"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="5dp"
android:paddingBottom="5dp"
android:background="#drawable/bottom_gray_border"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/searchEditText"
style="#style/EditTextSearch"
android:hint="#string/find"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"/>
</LinearLayout>
I got the idea from here: Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<stroke
android:width="1dip"
android:color="#FF8000" />
<solid
android:color="#00FFFFFF"
android:paddingLeft="10dip"
android:paddingTop="10dip"/>
<corners android:radius="10px"/>
<padding
android:left="10dip"
android:top="10dip"
android:right="10dip"
android:bottom="10dip" />
</shape>
You can save this as borderframe.xml in the res/drawable folder (create it if it doesnt exist yet), and reference it like so: android:background="#drawable/borderframe".

A simple way to display a border is to create a horizontal LinearLayout, and to set its background color and height according to the border you want.