Drawing a border around a custom LinearLayout

Question

here is a quick description of my screen layout.

<CustomLayout>
    <CardView>
        <CustomTextView />
        <CustomTextView />
        <CustomTextView />
    </CardView>
    <CustomTextView />
    <CustomTextView />
</CustomLayout>

I coded it so that CardView extends LinearLayout and CustomTextView extends TextView. Everything works fine except I want to draw a border line at the bottom of the CardView and at the bottom of the second CustomTextView. To do so, I use the same method for my CardView and my CustomTextView:

@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    super.onDraw(canvas);
    getLocalVisibleRect(mRect);
    if (mDrawBottomBorder)
        canvas.drawLine(mRect.left, mRect.bottom, mRect.right, mRect.bottom, mBorderPaint);
}

That method gets called in both cases, i.e. for my CardView and CustomTextView but it doesn't draw the border for my CardView! I suspect it's because it extends LinearLayout and not TextView but shouldn't it work anyway?

Answer 1

Ok I figured it out. My 3rd CustomTextView in my CardView layout was covering the border beneath it so the line wasn't visible.