banded background with two colors?

Question

I am trying to create a bottom bar with the background like this :

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Answer 1

As others pointed out, a ninepatch would be ideal in this situation (and won't take much memory). Working around with XML is not optimal. Here is something you can try:

in this case your view is considered beeing 40dp high

It's a layer list with two blocks in different colors. The problem with the XML approach is that you can't adjust the height of the blocks to a percentage (=50%). You have to use half of the actual view size in dp. Which means you have to adjust this drawable each time you change your view height/layout. A ninepatch would adjust to this automatically.