Button with 2 corners only

Question

I have to create buttons styled like this:

Yes, strange I know. Those 2 corners should not scale if button text is shorter / longer.

Is this possible to create it using an XML ?

I tried a vector but the vector scales with the size of button.
Any other idea I have is to do it programmatically, e.g., something like in this answer

(Explanation of the design: we're experimenting with the design. Imagine button with 4 such corners. Buttons next to each other each having 2 corners close to the other one, etc. Our users love fancy design ... . :-) )

I am sure that is not what you may real want! I hope if you mention the purpose of all this! We can suggest the best approach! Try to comment if you still want! — Xenolion, Dec 22 '17 at 21:39

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '17 at 22:46

you can create customView

 <LinearLayout
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_marginTop="100dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="100dp"
    android:layout_width="100dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <View
        android:layout_marginLeft="90dp"
        android:background="#000000"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"/>
    <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <TextView
        android:gravity="center"
        android:textSize="13dp"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:text="Button text.."
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp" />
        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="1dp"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">
       <View
           android:background="#000000"
           android:layout_width="1dp"
           android:layout_height="10dp"/>
        <View
            android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
            android:background="#000000"
            android:layout_width="1dp"
            android:layout_height="10dp"/>
        </RelativeLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
    <View
        android:layout_marginLeft="90dp"
        android:background="#000000"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"/>
</LinearLayout>

image like this

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '17 at 23:36

Okay after a little research and best practice you surely need a Layerlist as a background for your Button(though even a TextView will work i.e it is also clickable like any view).

SOLUTION:

You will have to open the drawables folder and add a drawable resource called lets say custom_button_background then use this layerlist inside it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="#000000" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:top="20dp" android:bottom="20dp" android:left="20dp" android:right="20dp">
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="#ffffff" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:right="80dp">
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="#ffffff" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:top="80dp" android:bottom="80dp">
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="#ffffff" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Then we are done! This will be our background, In my Android studio the Preview for this look like this:

You can adjust the values to reduce them to your needs. To set this as your Button or any View you simply add this attribute to it:

android:background="@drawable/custom_button_background"

Just adjust the measures to fit your Button Size!

Button with 2 corners only

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