8.4.5. textview_border.xml

The style ContactTextView that you created in the preceding section defines the appearance of the TextViews that are used to display a contact’s details. You specified a Drawable (i.e., an image or graphic) named @drawable/textview_border as the value for the TextView’s android:background attribute. In this section, you’ll define that Drawable in the app’s res/drawable-mdpi folder. If a Drawable is defined in only one of the project’s drawable folders, Android will use that Drawable on all device sizes and resolutions. To define the Drawable:

1. Right click the res/drawable-mdpi folder and select New > Android XML File.

2. Specify textview_border.xml as the File name and select shape as the root element, then click ...

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