How to draw a inner cell?

Issue

There is such a picture As in the game 4 photos 1 word

I need to draw cells for letters. I do not remember the name of the style, it seems to me that Inner, when the cell is concave inward.

And the fact is that I did not work with Photoshop for drawing and use it with 9-Patch. In the vast Internet did not find (or not properly searched).

So the question is how to draw such a button or cell in Drawable?

Solution

1. Create a custom drawable file bg_rounded_corners.xml for rounded black box shape and put this drawable into your res/drawable folder.

bg_rounded_corners.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <!-- Bottom Shadow -->
    <item>

        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >

            <solid android:color="#2F2F3D" />
            <corners android:radius="4dp" />

        </shape>
    </item>

    <!-- Top Shadow -->
    <item android:bottom="2dp">

        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >

            <solid android:color="#000000" />
            <corners android:radius="4dp" />

        </shape>
    </item>

    <!-- Center Filled Color -->
    <item
        android:top="1dp"
        android:bottom="1.5dp">

        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >

            <gradient
                android:startColor="#160A0F"
                android:centerColor="#190B0F"
                android:endColor="#1B0C13"
                android:angle="270"/>

            <corners android:radius="4dp" />

        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

2. Design your layout XML using LinearLayout with Horizontal orientation and put desired number of TextView inside this LinearLayout. Set custom drawable to each TextView using attribute android:background="@drawable/bg_rounded_corners".

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:padding="16dp"
    android:background="#202531">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal">

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="32dp"
            android:layout_height="32dp"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:paddingBottom="2dp"
            android:textSize="22sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:text="H"
            android:background="@drawable/bg_rounded_corners"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="32dp"
            android:layout_height="32dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:paddingBottom="2dp"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:textSize="22sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:text="E"
            android:background="@drawable/bg_rounded_corners"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="32dp"
            android:layout_height="32dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:paddingBottom="2dp"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:textSize="22sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:text="L"
            android:background="@drawable/bg_rounded_corners"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="32dp"
            android:layout_height="32dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:paddingBottom="2dp"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:textSize="22sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:text="L"
            android:background="@drawable/bg_rounded_corners"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="32dp"
            android:layout_height="32dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:paddingBottom="2dp"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:textSize="22sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:text="O"
            android:background="@drawable/bg_rounded_corners"/>

    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

OUTPUT:

FYI, I have used color #202531 as background color. For your case, you can use another color or use any image as background of root LinearLayout.

Hope this will help~

Answered By - Ferdous Ahamed