How to make a view with rounded corners?

Question

I am trying to make a view in android with rounded edges. The solution I found so far is to define a shape with rounded corners and use it as the background of that view.

Answer 1

Jaap van Hengstum's answer works great however I think it is expensive and if we apply this method on a Button for example, the touch effect is lost since the view is rendered as a bitmap.

For me the best method and the simplest one consists in applying a mask on the view, like that:

@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int width, int height, int oldWidth, int oldHeight) {
    super.onSizeChanged(width, height, oldWidth, oldHeight);

    float cornerRadius = ;
    this.path = new Path();
    this.path.addRoundRect(new RectF(0, 0, width, height), cornerRadius, cornerRadius, Path.Direction.CW);
}

@Override
protected void dispatchDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    if (this.path != null) {
        canvas.clipPath(this.path);
    }
    super.dispatchDraw(canvas);
}