Gridlayout with borders

Question

I'm a new Android developer, and I'm just trying to improve my skill by reading some samples, I want to design a new interface using GridLayout, I've checked a lot of samples but I can't seem to draw borders between the GridLayout cells. What could I be missing?

Here is a link that I went through it, but the borders didn't show up!

http://developer.samsung.com/android/technical-docs/GridLayout-in-Android#

I appreciate your care in advance.

Sabellian

Answer 1

Android Layout containers don't draw borders. Still:

1. You can set background of each cell's View to an xml Drawable resource, which describes a transparent rectangle with borders.

2. Give a background color to GridView's parent View, and set each GridView cell View's background to a different color.

Both of these can also be applied as a Style.

Hyperextension

Thanks a lot,it worked,but is there a way to recognize the size of the image which i set as the background!?or it doesn't differ for different cells with different content size!? – Sabellian

@SohaSoha The Shapes defined in XML Drawable auto stretch by default. If you use a PNG image, make it 9-patch, it will then scale nicely to whatever size it has to fit. 9-patch tools is provided in android SDK. – Hyperextension