Shadow to Linear layout in android

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hello, This is my UI, i am trying to put shadow to Linear Layout, if you see there is shadow background of Linear layout, I have tried, took parent layout gave to it grey color and then gave white color to this linear layout, but it looks grey border, but as you see i don't want that way. This is shadow Please help.

Have you tried this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24095223/android-linearlayout-add-border-with-shadow-around-a-linearlayout — Rohit Sharma, Feb 16 '16 at 10:24
[enter link description here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13005714/how-to-show-shadow-around-the-linearlayout-in-android) look at archie.bpgc answer — Bliss, Feb 16 '16 at 10:36
@RohitSharma thank you, i have created 9-patch-image, it looks the same as i want :) — user3530687, Feb 16 '16 at 10:51

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '16 at 10:24

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Give some elevation to your linear layout like

android:elevation="10dp"

Put this in your xml

answered Feb 16 '16 at 10:24

Adnan Amjad

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 22 '16 at 06:44

Why not to use CardView?

You can wrap your LinearLayout in CardView and get the shadow effect from the CardView. As far as I think, this is not possible with simple XML and you will have to use 9-Patch. Since you want this compatible with pre-lollipop, CardView is the simplest way.

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
    xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    ...
    card_view:cardBackgroundColor="@android:color/white"
    card_view:cardCornerRadius="4dp"
    card_view:cardUseCompatPadding="true" />

Shadow to Linear layout in android

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