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Adding shadow to Rounded corner TextView?

I want to add shadow to my text view . I found solutions for adding gradients and one other solution which suggested creating a duplicate text view with a lighter shade at the back of the original textView to give a shadow effect. But i want to have a real shadow effect.
This is what i tried .I created an xml file rounded_corner.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#33000000"
android:dashWidth="3dp"
/>
<solid android:color="#000000" />
<padding
android:left="1dp"
android:right="1dp"
android:top="1dp" />
<corners android:radius="10dp"
/>
</shape>
I added elevation and translationz but its not showing shadow in the output
<TextView
android:background="#drawable/rounded_corners"
android:layout_width="260dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:textSize="50sp"
android:text="Welcome User"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:elevation="50dp"
android:translationZ="10dp"
android:id="#+id/welcome"/>

I assume that you want to put the shadow on the TextView and not on the text itself. The you can make a layer-list inside your rounded corner drawable file like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#android:color/black" />
<corners android:radius="3dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:bottom="2dp" android:right="2dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#282828" />
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#302f2f" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
If you put the drawable as background of your TextView
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/rounded_corner"
the output will link like this:

Just pu this on your TextView XML for shadow on the text:
android:shadowColor="#android:color/holo_purple"
android:shadowDx="10"
android:shadowDy="10"
android:shadowRadius="5"
you can edit with your preferences.
And create a Drawable file for shadow in all input, more or less like this one:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<!-- Bottom 2dp Shadow -->
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#d8d8d8" />
</shape>
</item>
<!-- White Top color -->
<item android:bottom="4px" android:left="0px" android:right="4px" android:top="0px">
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

You can use the shadow XML attributes.
android:shadowColor="#000"
android:shadowDx="0"
android:shadowDy="0"
android:shadowRadius="50"
For more info check this link, https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:shadowColor

how to set border button with 2 colors

i'm trying to create a border for a Button with two color white and black. So I decide to create a shape. i trying to add gradient with white and black color my code doesn't work
i want border like this :
my xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<gradient
android:angle="360"
android:centerColor="#000000"
android:endColor="#bfbfbf"
android:gradientRadius="360"
android:startColor="#ffffff"
android:type="sweep" />
<stroke
android:width="2dp"
android:color="#ffffff" />
</shape>
</item>
<item
android:bottom="4dp"
android:left="4dp"
android:right="4dp"
android:top="4dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#d2d2d2" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
and buttn :
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="OK"
android:background="#drawable/border"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/progress"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:id="#+id/okbtn" />

button_background.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke
android:width="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:color="#000" />
</shape>
</item>
<item
android:bottom="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:right="#dimen/stroke_width_outer">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke
android:width="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:color="#FFF" />
</shape>
</item>
<item
android:bottom="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:left="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:right="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:top="#dimen/stroke_width_outer">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke
android:width="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:color="#7F7F7F" />
</shape>
</item>
<item
android:bottom="#dimen/stroke_width_inner"
android:left="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:right="#dimen/stroke_width_inner"
android:top="#dimen/stroke_width_outer">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke
android:width="#dimen/stroke_width_outer"
android:color="#DFDFDF" />
</shape>
</item>
<item
android:bottom="#dimen/stroke_width_inner"
android:left="#dimen/stroke_width_inner"
android:right="#dimen/stroke_width_inner"
android:top="#dimen/stroke_width_inner">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#BFBFBF" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
values/dimen.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<dimen name="stroke_width_outer">3dp</dimen>
<dimen name="stroke_width_inner">6dp</dimen>
</resources>
stroke_width_inner should be twice of stroke_width_outer always
Apply background to button -
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/button_background"
android:text="OK"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
On Layout Editor -
On Device -
On Device you won't see the grayish left and top border as you see on Layout Editor

This appears to be a good place to use a 9-patch image. Any solution based on a regular .png file, a <shape>, or a <vector> will wind up scaling the white and black borders of your button.
Once you've created your button.9.png file, then you can set it to be your button's background using android:background="#drawable/button".
Edit
Here's a 9-patch based on your linked .png file:

Please look here about creating a shape drawable http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#Shape
Once you have done this, in the XML for your button set android:background="#drawable/your_button_border"

EditText border color on threesides only with shape.xml

Hi I want the edittext border colour only on left,top and right with blue colour but bottom should be transparent or grey.
How can I achieve this using shape.xml
As of now I am using the below code but unable to make the bottom line grey
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:thickness="0dp"
android:shape="rectangle"
>
<stroke android:width="1dp"
android:color="#49b1bb"
/>
<corners android:radius="0dp" />
</shape>

Following code will help you to achieve your goal:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<!-- Border -->
<item>
<shape>
<solid android:color="#49b1bb" >
</solid>
</shape>
</item>
<!-- Body -->
<item
android:left="2dip"
android:right="2dp"
android:top="2dp">
<shape>
<solid android:color="#ffafafaf" >
</solid>
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
What exactly above code is doing is it simply create border for all side first then after that It is adding layer on bottom border so that it is not visible to user.
Happy coding!!!!!!!!!!

Add only top and bottom border on LinearLayout [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View?
(25 answers)
Closed 1 year ago.
I would like to add only a bottom and a top border on my Linearlayout.
I have tried to do this :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:bottom="1dp"
android:top="1dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#000" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
But it add a border around the shape..
Could you help me please ?

I think you can create this drawable and use it as background:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#000"/>
</shape>
</item>
<item android:bottom="1dp" android:top="1dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
Think of is as drawing a rectangle with border color first and then lay on top of it a rectangle with your background color leaving out 1dp on top and at the bottom.

Make this two file and put this code. you can set border top and bottom border,
main.xml
<TextView
android:text="This is textline"
android:background="#drawable/border_set"
/>
border_set.xml
This file located into full path project_root/res/drawable/border_set.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item>
<shape
android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
<solid android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:top="1dp" android:bottom="1dp">
<shape
android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#000" />
<solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

Here is the solution. It works even with transparent background.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:left="-2dp" android:right="-2dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="#color/borderColor" />
<solid android:color="#color/backgroundColor" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

I believe this is the simplest way:
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="2dp"
android:background="#000000" />

This is my version; top border and bottom border are visible, not showing the left or right borders. And the background is transparent.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp">
<item
android:left="-1dp"
android:right="-1dp"
android:top="-1dp"
android:bottom="1dp">
<shape
android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#color/BlueGrey_colorPrimary" />
<solid android:color="#android:color/transparent" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

A quick way to achieve this:
Add a Text View to the bottom and/or top of your layout.
Set the TextView's width to "match_parent"
Set the TextView's height to about "1dp" or find the thickness you would like
Set the TextView's background to the color you would like the border to be
I hope this helps!

You can follow this link Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View?
I expect that you are solve from this link.
also you can solve How to add border around linear layout except at the bottom?

Its simple. Draw 3 shapes like this.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#color/menu_line_separator_in" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:bottom="1.5dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#color/menu_line_separator_out" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:top="1.5dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#color/menu_line_separator_out" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

Square shaped layout border with round inside edges

I’m attempting to create a layout border with corners that are square on the outside and round on the inside. I’ve gathered that I need to create an .xml drawable definition composed of two shapes: one with a stroke width and corner radius and another with a stroke width only:
The drawables
round_border.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<stroke android:width="4dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
<padding android:left="7dp" android:top="7dp"
android:right="7dp" android:bottom="7dp" />
<corners android:radius="4dp" />
<solid android:color="#FFC0C0C0" />
</shape>
square_border.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
<solid android:color="#FFC0C0C0" />
</shape>
Each of these works independantly as a border when appliedby itself like so:
android:background="#drawable/round_border"
but when they either or both are added to an item-list drawable like so:
composite_border.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<layer-list>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/round_border"/>
<!-- <item android:drawable="#drawable/square_border"/> -->
</layer-list>
</shape>
and:
android:background="#drawable/composite_border"
The layout's background is completely black instead of just a black border.
Does anyone know how to make the layer list work for this task?

From Shape Drawable Doc you can see that shape can't have layer-list inside so you should define your composite_border.xml like this
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:drawable="#drawable/square_border"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/round_border"/>
</layer-list>
note that I changed the order of your items inside the layer-list as stated in the documentation of layer-list
Each drawable in the list is drawn in the order of the list—the last drawable in the list is drawn on top and you want it to be squared from outside

Try this will work fine enough:
solid is background color
stroke is border
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<solid
android:color="#color/white"/>
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#ffaaaaaa" />
<size
android:width="15dp"
android:height="15dp"/>
</shape>

Create a xml file like round_background.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="oval">
<solid
android:color="#CCCC33"/>
<size
android:width="35dp"
android:height="35dp"/>
</shape>
In the layout set as background
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/layout_wellbeing"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:gravity="center"
android:background="#drawable/rounded_corner_leuvan"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
</LinearLayout>

square_border.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<stroke android:width="2dp"
android:color="#FF000000"
/>
<solid android:color="#FFC0C0C0" />
</shape>
composite_border.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<layer-list>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/round_border"/>
<!-- <item android:drawable="#drawable/square_border"/> -->
</layer-list>
</shape>
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