Android: Creating a Circular TextView?

Question

My current simple XML is below, however i would like the 3 TextViews within it to be circular, rather than rectangular.

How can I change my code to do so?

Answer 1

Much of the Answer here seems to be hacks to the shape drawable, while android in itself supports this with the shapes functionality. This is something that worked perfectly for me.You can do this in two ways

Using a fixed height and width, that would stay the same regardless of the text that you put it as shown below

Using Padding which re-adjusts the shape regardless of the text in the textview it as shown below

semi_standard_margin = 4dp