Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View?

Question

I have a TextView and I\'d like to add a black border along its top and bottom borders. I tried adding android:drawableTop and android:drawableBottom

Answer 1

To change this:

I prefer this approach in "drawable/top_bottom_border.xml":

This only makes the borders, not a rectangle that will appear if your background has a color.