Android: Draw custom border around listview?

I've got a ListActivity with a ListView in it. I need to draw a repeating image around the border ("on top of it (I guess after the listview i开发者_如何学JAVAs renderered))

How can I hook in my own drawing code for this?

You can use a FrameLayout to cause the ListView to overlap with a view that fills the entire screen. In this background view you could tile an image, or write your own custom View with your own drawing method.

There is no border property in ListView, as far as I know.

Instead you can put ListView into a FrameLayout and set the Background color of the FrameLayout.

Finally, set some padding to FrameLayout in order to create a border effect.

Hi There is one way I have used, but that can be done in XML only. android:background="#ffffff"
android:divider="#ffcccccc" android:dividerHeight="1dip"/>

What I am doing is, putting listview in a LinearLayout. Background color of the list is different than that of layout. There is a margin set for layout. Hence the distance between list and layout will appear like a border for the listview. Hope this helps.