Open-sided Android stroke?

Question

Is it possible to create an Android shape object with stroke on only certain sides?

Eg I have:

<stroke 
 android:width="3dip" 
 android:color="#000000"
    android:dashWidth="10dip" 
    android:dashGap="6dip" />

Which is similar to this CSS:

border: 3px dashed black;

How can I set the stroke on just one side? This is how I would do it in CSS:

border-left: 3px dashed black;

How do you do this in Android XML?

Answer 1

I solved this by using a list-layer, combining two shapes, one of which with height 1dp placed at the bottom

optionscreen_bottomrectangle.xml:

<layer-list>
<item>
      <shape>
            <solid android:color="#535353">
      </shape>
</item>
<item android:bottom="1dp">
     <shape>
           <solid android:color="#252525"
     </shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

Then, in the layout/main.xml file

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/bottom_rectangle"
    android:background="@drawable/optionscreen_bottomrectangle"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:layout_below="@id/table_options"
    android:layout_above="@id/exit_bar"/>

Which fills the gap between table_options and exit_bar with a background and just before exit_bar prints a 1dp line. This did the trick for me, I hope it helps someone else.