After following through chapter 4 and reorganizing the app to show the date of an entry to the right of it, the notepad_line is still just drawn under the TextView with the task, but not under the text. How would I go about to change that? I checked the sample code, but it has the same issue.

The same for me.

I think the date field is placed after drawing the line.
Unfortunately I don't know how to solve yet.

I hope someone will guide us.

The issue is because the date is represented by a TextView which is not subclassed and thus does not have its onDraw method overriden to draw the line.

In todolist_item.xml rather than using a TextView to represent the date, use something like com.example.todolist.ToDoDateItemView which could be coded exactly like com.example.todolist.ToDoListItemView except delete all lines of code referring to the margin.

/Phil

Obvious in hindsight. Thank you!