Android draw circle around Text

Question

I have a textView with a single character in it (all single digit, numbers 0-9). I\'d like to draw a circle or a square around the number. I saw a thread mention using a nin

Answer 1

You should be able to just give that TextView a Shape drawable that is a circle as a background.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#Shape

Answer 2

Just need to create a round drawable like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:shape="oval">
    <corners android:radius="10dip"/>
    <stroke android:color="@color/red" android:width="2dip"/>
    <solid android:color="@android:color/transparent"/>
</shape>

And set this drawable as your TextView background.