In Android, Padding is used to offset the content of the view by a specific number of pixels from either direction, i.e., padding from left, right, top and bottom. Using Padding, we can create multiple borders to a view by applying a combination of multiple padding and border.
So in this article, we will show you how you could apply multiple borders using padding in Android using Jetpack Compose. Follow the below steps once the IDE is ready.
Step by Step Implementation
Step 1: Create a New Project in Android Studio
To create a new project in Android Studio please refer to How to Create/Start a New Project in Android Studio. While choosing the template, select Empty Compose Activity. If you do not find this template, try upgrading the Android Studio to the latest version. We demonstrated the application in Kotlin, so make sure you select Kotlin as the primary language while creating a New Project.
Step 2: Working with the MainActivity.kt file
Go to the MainActivity.kt file and refer to the following code. Below is the code for the MainActivity.kt file. Comments are added inside the code to understand the code in more detail.
package com.geeksforgeeks.jcmultipadding
import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.activity.ComponentActivity
import androidx.activity.compose.setContent
import androidx.compose.foundation.border
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
import androidx.compose.material.*
import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
import androidx.compose.ui.unit.sp
class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super .onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContent {
// Creating a Simple Scaffold
// Layout for the application
Scaffold(
// Creating a Top Bar
topBar = { TopAppBar(title = { Text( "GFG | Multi-Padding" , color = Color.White) }, backgroundColor = Color( 0xff0f9d58 )) },
// Creating Content
content = {
// Creating a Column Layout
Column(Modifier.fillMaxSize(), horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally, verticalArrangement = Arrangement.Center) {
// Creating a Text with Multiple
// padding and borders
Text(
text = "Hello Geek!" ,
fontSize = 20 .sp,
modifier = Modifier
.padding( 8 .dp) // margin
.border( 2 .dp, Color.Black) // outer border
.padding( 8 .dp) // space between the borders
.border( 2 .dp, Color.Green) // inner border
.padding( 8 .dp) // padding
)
}
}
)
}
}
} |
Output:
You can see that we could apply two borders to the Text element.