Oval shape clipped when created programmatically

Question

I\'ve got a clipping problem.

First, I tried to display an oval shape with Xml only. I had the following code:

res/drawable/circle.xml

Answer 1

I experienced the same exact issue. This probably happens because of a bug in Android. The solution is to set the parent View's padding to some value, then set it back to the desired value at some point in the future.

// set stroke properties programmatically
viewWithStroke.background
        .let {it as GradientDrawable}
        .setStroke(newBorderThickness,newBorderColor)

// set padding to some value now, then to the desired value later as a
// work-around for the weird android bug where strokes get clipped because
// android is not refreshing the view layouts properly
val parentOfViewWithStroke = viewWithStroke.parent.let {it as ViewGroup}
parentOfViewWithStroke.setPadding(
        newBorderPadding+1,newBorderPadding+1,
        newBorderPadding+1,newBorderPadding+1)
viewWithStroke.post()
{
    parentOfViewWithStroke.setPadding(
            newBorderPadding,newBorderPadding,
            newBorderPadding,newBorderPadding)
}

P.S.: I tried using View.invalidate() and View.requestLayout() but could not get it to work.