Material design button with border

Here's how to do it correctly.

What you need to do is

1 - Create shape drawable with stroke
2 - Create ripple drawable
3 - Create selector drawable for less than v21
4 - Create a new style for button with border
5 - Apply style on button

1 - Create shape with stroke btn_outline.xml

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

    <stroke
        android:width="2dp"
        android:color="@color/colorAccent">
    </stroke>
    <solid android:color="@color/colorTransparent"/>
    <corners
        android:radius="5dp">
    </corners>

</shape>

2 - Create ripple drawable drawable-v21/bg_btn_outline.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ripple xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:color="@color/colorOverlay">
    <item>
        <shape>
            <stroke
                android:width="2dp"
                android:color="@color/colorAccent"/>
            <corners android:radius="5dp"/>
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:id="@android:id/mask">
        <shape>
            <stroke
                android:width="2dp"
                android:color="@color/colorAccent"/>
            <solid android:color="@android:color/white"/>
            <corners android:radius="5dp"/>
        </shape>
    </item>

</ripple>

android:id="@android:id/mask" is required to have ripple touch feedback on the button. The layer that is marked as mask is not visible on screen, its just for touch feedback.

3 - Create selector drawable for less than v21 drawable/bg_btn_outline.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/btn_outline" android:state_pressed="true">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="@color/colorOverlay"/>
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/btn_outline" android:state_focused="true">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="@color/colorOverlay"/>
        </shape>
    </item>

    <item android:drawable="@drawable/btn_outline"/>

</selector>

4 - Create a new style for button with border All resources that that are needed to create the style are given above, that's how your style should look like

<style name="ButtonBorder" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored"/>

<style name="ButtonBorder.Accent">
        <item name="android:background">@drawable/bg_btn_outline</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorAccent</item>
        <item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
        <item name="android:singleLine">true</item>
    </style>

4 - Apply style on button

<Button
   style="@style/ButtonBorder.Accent"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

That's pretty much it. Here's a sample of how the buttons looks now. enter image description here


You could do this pretty easily by setting Material Design Button's style attribute to @style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.OutlinedButton and setting app:strokeColor attribute value to your preferred color.

example:

<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
                android:text="Rounded outlined button"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:id="@+id/btnRound"
                style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.OutlinedButton"
                app:strokeColor="@color/colorPrimaryDark"/>

References:

  • https://material.io/develop/android/docs/getting-started/
  • https://material.io/develop/android/components/material-button/

You can also use the Material Components for Android.

Add the dependency to your build.gradle:

dependencies { implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.3.0' }

In this case you can use the MaterialButton in your layout file:

<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
   ....
   style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.OutlinedButton"
   app:cornerRadius=".."
   app:strokeColor="@color/colorPrimary"/>

Apply the style @style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.OutlinedButton.

In your case use the app:cornerRadius attribute to change the size of corner radius. This will round off the corners with specified dimensions.
Use te attribute app:strokeColor and app:strokeWidth to change the color and the width of the border.
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You can also customize the corners using ShapeApperance (it requires version 1.1.0)

<style name="MyButton" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.OutlinedButton">
    <item name="shapeAppearanceOverlay">@style/MyShapeAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyShapeAppearance" parent="">
    <item name="cornerFamilyTopLeft">rounded</item>
    <item name="cornerFamilyBottomLeft">rounded</item>
    <item name="cornerFamilyTopRight">cut</item>
    <item name="cornerFamilyBottomRight">cut</item>
    <item name="cornerSize">8dp</item>
</style>

The official doc is here and all the android specs here.


With jetpack compose you can use the OutlinedButton and the border attribute:

    OutlinedButton(
        onClick = { },
        border = BorderStroke(1.dp, Color.Blue),
        shape = RoundedCornerShape(8.dp) 
    ) {
        Text(text = "Save")
    }

enter image description here


OLD (support library)

With the new Support Library 28.0.0, the Design Library now contains the Material Button.

You can add this button to our layout file with:

<android.support.design.button.MaterialButton
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="XXXX"
    android:textSize="18sp"
    app:icon="@drawable/ic_android_white_24dp" />

You can customize the button with these attributes:

  • app:backgroundTint: Used to apply a tint to the background of the button. If you wish to change the background color of the button, use this attribute instead of background.

  • app:strokeColor: The color to be used for the button stroke

  • app:strokeWidth: The width to be used for the button stroke

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