Question

I want to create 4 squares and in each square i want to create a small button. The square must be visible and must have a border.

I know how to create 4 buttons as a square but i don’t know how to create a border around each square. But i want to to be size independent, now the buttons are very big…

my example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ViewFlipper xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent">
    <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/magaLoginLayout"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent">
        <Button android:text="@+id/Button01" android:id="@+id/Button01"
            android:layout_width="160dip" android:layout_height="160dip" android:layout_marginTop="20dip"></Button>
        <Button android:text="@+id/Button03" android:layout_below="@+id/Button01" android:id="@+id/Button03"
            android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/Button01" android:layout_height="160dip" android:layout_width="160dip"></Button>
        <Button android:text="@+id/Button04" android:layout_below="@+id/Button01" android:id="@+id/Button04"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/Button03" android:layout_height="160dip" android:layout_width="160dip"></Button>
        <Button android:text="@+id/Button02" android:id="@+id/Button02" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/Button01" android:layout_alignTop="@+id/Button01" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_height="160dip"></Button>


</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

Do you want to create layout look like this screenshot ?

Code for this layout :

1. main_screen.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
     <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="match_parent"
          android:background="@drawable/bgimage2" >
   
      <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="29dp"
        android:text="Call & SMS Blocker" 
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:textSize="40dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" /> 
   
     <Button 
      android:id="@+id/blocked_sms"
      android:layout_width="162dp" 
      android:layout_height="162dp"
      android:layout_marginLeft="50dp"
      android:layout_marginTop="120dp"
      android:background="@drawable/buttoneffects" 
      android:focusable="true" 
      android:textColor="#000000" 
      android:textStyle="bold" /> 
   
    <ImageButton
     android:id="@+id/imagebutton1" 
     style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall" 
     android:layout_width="50dp" 
     android:layout_height="50dp"
     android:layout_alignTop="@+id/blocked_sms" 
     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" 
     android:layout_marginTop="136dp" 
     android:background="@drawable/buttoneffectpower" /> 
   
     <Button 
        android:id="@+id/blocked_calls"
        android:layout_width="162dp" 
        android:layout_height="162dp" 
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/blocked_sms"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/blocked_sms"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true" 
        android:layout_marginRight="50dp"
        android:background="@drawable/buttoneffectssecond" 
        android:focusable="true" android:text="Blocked Calls"
        android:textColor="#000000" 
        android:textStyle="bold" /> 
   
     <Button 
        android:id="@+id/settings" 
        android:layout_width="162dp" 
        android:layout_height="162dp" 
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/blocked_calls"
        android:layout_below="@+id/imagebutton1" 
        android:layout_marginRight="50dp"
        android:background="@drawable/buttoneffectfourth" 
        android:focusable="true" android:text="Settings" 
        android:textColor="#000000" android:textStyle="bold" /> 
   
    <Button 
     android:id="@+id/blacklist" 
     android:layout_width="162dp" 
     android:layout_height="162dp" 
     android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/settings"
      android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/settings" 
     android:layout_marginLeft="50dp" 
      android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/imagebutton1"
     android:background="@drawable/buttoneffectthird" 
     android:focusable="true" 
     android:text="Blacklist" 
     android:textColor="#000000" 
     android:textStyle="bold" /> 
   
     <Button 
       android:id="@+id/help" 
       android:layout_width="150dp" 
       android:layout_height="70dp" 
       android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/blocked_sms"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" 
    android:layout_marginBottom="69dp"
    android:background="@drawable/buttoneffectsimple" 
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:text="Help" 
    android:textColor="#000000" 
    android:textStyle="bold" /> 
   
      <Button 
     android:id="@+id/block_last_number" 
     android:layout_width="330dp" 
     android:layout_height="70dp" 
     android:layout_above="@+id/help" 
     android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/help" 
     android:layout_alignRight="@+id/settings" 
     android:layout_marginBottom="27dp"
     android:background="@drawable/buttoneffectsimple" 
     android:focusable="true" 
     android:text="Block Last Number" 
     android:textColor="#000000" 
     android:textStyle="bold" /> 
   
      <Button 
    android:id="@+id/aboutus" 
    android:layout_width="150dp" 
    android:layout_height="70dp" 
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/help" 
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/help"
    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/block_last_number"
    android:background="@drawable/buttoneffectsimple" 
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:text="About Us" 
    android:textColor="#000000" 
    android:textStyle="bold" /> 
   
   </RelativeLayout>
   

Code for button effects (xml files layout):

    <Selector>
        <item android:drawable="@drawable/blockedsms"><shape>
        <solid android:color="#fff" />

        <stroke android:width="1px" android:color="#444" />

        <corners android:radius="6dp" />

        <gradient android:angle="270" android:endColor="#10000000"
           android:startColor="#10FFFFFF" />

        <corners android:bottomRightRadius="50dp" />
    </shape></item>

       </selector>

Now in other xml button effects layout, you have to change

      <corners android:bottomLeftRadius 
      <corners android:topRightRadius
      <corners android:topLeftRadius

      and so on......

Hope! This will help.
Cheers !!!