Question

A need to draw an “X” in a View using Shapes, but the X’s edges must be anchored on left, top, right and bottom of the view.

Something like this:

Answer 1

It would be much easier to do it by creating a custom View and overriding the onDraw method. Ie.

public class XView extends View {

    @Override
    public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        float width = getMeasuredWidth();
        float height = getMeasuredHeight();
        Paint paint = new Paint();
        paint.setColor(Color.RED);
        canvas.drawLine(0,0,width,height,paint);
        canvas.drawLine(width,0,0,height,paint);
    }
}