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How to design color boxes in android as shown in the image?

How can we display the colors as shown in the image where we can select more than one color ? The colored boxes must be checkboxes according to me but I am not able customize them

You need to define an xml resource in the drawable folder and use it in an imageView for instance for your question above it may look like this. Where by you use a shape called rectangle, giving it a solid colour as below and then also making the corner radius circular with 8dp. Then to display it you use an imageView and set it as a src. I have also added a stroke. Remove it if you dont need it!
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#DFDFE0" />
<size
android:height="8dp"
android:width="16dp" />
<corners
android:bottomLeftRadius="8dp"
android:bottomRightRadius="8dp"
android:topLeftRadius="8dp"
android:topRightRadius="8dp" />
<stroke
android:width="3dp"
android:color="#2E3135" />
<gradient
android:type="linear"
android:angle="0"
android:startColor="#f6ee19"
android:endColor="#115ede" />
</shape>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<corners
android:radius="5dp"/>
<gradient
android:startColor="#2E3135"
android:centerColor="#000000"
android:endColor="#ffffff"
android:angle="180"/>
</shape>
Change the colour as your need.

list view border design in android

I am created list view its working fine but how to set border on every item like below screen please any one help me how do that
how to design border line design on every item i mention it circle shape

Make a new shape drawable to use for the background and set the stroke android:dashGap and android:dashWidth .
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<stroke
android:width="2dp"
android:color="#666666"
android:dashGap="2dp"
android:dashWidth="8dp" />
<padding
android:bottom="8dp"
android:left="8dp"
android:right="8dp"
android:top="8dp" />
</shape>
Note: create the drawable xml file in the res/drawable folder
if you want rounded corners add:
<corners android:radius="8dp"/>

ImageView with rouded corners, solid border and glow effect

I want to put rounded corners and border to an ImageView, with custom border color. Also, I would like to achieve a glowing effect with the color of the border. Attached sample image. Note that the source image has square borders.
I suppose this is achievable only by using Canvas? Any ideas and sample code?

this is what i have done for my ImageView to make same changes as you want.
made one image_shape.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
/>
<corners
android:radius="50dp" />
<padding
android:left="10dp"
android:right="10dp"
android:top="10dp"
android:bottom="10dp"/>
<solid android:color="#10151D"/>
</shape>
Now, put this xml as the background of your imageView then you will get effect as you want.
Right now i have set my own color. you can put your desire color and get effect as rounded glow border effect.

try using the following code in a new xml file named roundCorners in your drawable folder:
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#000000" />
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#DDDDDD" />
<corners
android:bottomLeftRadius="2dp"
android:bottomRightRadius="2dp"
android:topLeftRadius="2dp"
android:topRightRadius="2dp" />
</shape>
And then set it as a background to your ImageView in the layout file by:
android:background="#drawable/roundCorners"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle"
android:thickness="0dp" >
<stroke android:color="#ff5febe7" android:width="2dp" />
<solid android:color="#601E3232"/>
<corners android:radius="5dp" />
</shape>

How can I build such button?

I need to implement such button for my Android app. It would be great to do this without using full image as button.
I've done almost the same button using <shape> with <gradient>. The only thing I need is to add bottom blue button shadow and include image.
Is it possible?
Thanks in advance.

You can do this by combining Shape Drawables inside a Layered Drawable. To do so, you'll have 3 xml files as below:
button.xml (the one you already have i guess)
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:radius="16dp" />
<gradient
android:angle="270"
android:centerColor="#FFFFFF"
android:endColor="#CAEBF8"
android:startColor="#FFFFFF"
android:type="linear" />
<padding
android:bottom="8dp"
android:left="8dp"
android:right="8dp"
android:top="8dp" />
<stroke
android:width="2dp"
android:color="#FFFFFF" />
</shape>
button_bg.xml (to add the blue border below the button)
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:radius="16dp" />
<solid android:color="#6FC8F1" />
</shape>
layered_button.xml (to combine the previous xml, and the drawable to use as background on your button)
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:drawable="#drawable/button_bg"/>
<item
android:bottom="2dp"
android:drawable="#drawable/button"/>
</layer-list>
You'll find more information on the Layer List in the Drawables Documentation

Make your button's android:background attribute to point your desired image. Create your image with the text and the little person icon. It's not possible to put a text and an image at the same time inside a button.
For the blue shadow, you can either include it in your image or achieve the same result with the gradient attribute as you already said in your question.

For the image, you should use
android:drawableRight
As for the shadow I'm not sure how this is achieved.

Android button styling

I am quite new to Android dev, but not Java dev, so doing the logic behind a button is no issue, but styling it is not as easy as css. I have read a couple tutorials on shapes / styles so I kind of know how to do the custom borders and round corners, but I was hoping to see some really good quality examples, like the buttons on the Twitter app http://i.stack.imgur.com/Gip2s.png or the 'debossed' ones on the facebook app.
What I suppose I am really interested in, are using shadows to create effects. Are these done with images, or can you style this in the app?
thanks

for rounded corners create a shape drawable eg. ronded_corner.xml and the angle must be a multiple of 45 degree
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<gradient android:startColor="#SomeGradientBeginColor" android:endColor="#SomeGradientEndColor"
android:angle="225"/>
<corners android:bottomRightRadius="7dp" android:bottomLeftRadius="7dp"
android:topLeftRadius="7dp" android:topRightRadius="7dp"/>
</shape>
then set this Background by android:background:#drawable/ronded_corner

Whenever you create the button in the layout just set the background property of the button as XML, Put this XML file in the drawable folder.
sample XML code i will post here. you can modify and learn in that only.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<gradient
android:angle="270"
android:startColor="#B80000"
android:endColor="#900405"
android:type="linear"
/>
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#900405"/>
</shape>

For rounded corner button, define inset as shown below and adjust radius.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:insetLeft="4dp"
android:insetTop="6dp"
android:insetRight="4dp"
android:insetBottom="6dp">
<ripple android:color="?attr/colorControlHighlight">
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle"
android:tint="#0091ea">
<corners android:radius="10dp" />
<solid android:color="#1a237e" />
<padding android:bottom="6dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</ripple>
</inset>
For more information http://www.zoftino.com/android-button