how to colour the outline of my text black in xml for android
One way is to use shadow:
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textColor="#FFFFFF" android:shadowColor="#000000" android:shadowDx="0.0" android:shadowDy="0.0" android:shadowRadius="2.0" />This gives white text a black outline. Adjust the radius accordingly to how thick you'd like it.
From what I can understand you want rectangle-like border for TextView correct me if I am wrong
then,,
You can set a shape drawable (a rectangle) as background for the view.
<TextView android:text="Some text" android:background="@drawable/black_bhgroung"/>And rectangle drawable black_bhgroung.xml (put into res/drawable folder):
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" > <solid android:color="#00000000" /> <stroke android:width="1dip" android:color="#4fa5d5"/></shape>Hope this helps...