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

Just to enforce @phreakhead ´s and user1051892 ´s answers, if negative, must to be greater than . If not, item´s painting will be mixed with stroke´s painting and you may think these values are not working.