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shadow effect in android color cardview

Want this kind of shadow effect with android card view except for white background with cardview property, neither use with the canvas draw mechanism nor 9 patch image mechanism
want to use only drawable shape or cardview properties. TIA

EDIT: There is this github project you can use to get custom shadow for CardView. Just implement it in your project and use this instead of androidx components. Link: https://github.com/nvl2val/CardView/tree/master
2nd EDIT: Also another workaround for this issue. Read this thread: Android change Material elevation shadow color
I don't really get your question but CardView itself has a lot of properties you can play with. Check this documentation for more: https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/cardview/widget/CardView
Using elevation will give you shadow by default so if you don't want a shadow on objects with a white background you need to set the elevation to 0. Here you can play with
android:elevation = "10dp"
app:cardElevation = "10dp"
and see which one does the job better for you. Also, try adding some padding to your parent layout so that CardView has some space around. All this and maybe more you can find in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46374054/14759470

How to set a state-list drawable as back ground of a Button under material theme in android

I am using 'Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.DarkActionBar' as my AppTheme.I want to change the back ground to a custom state-list drawable. But the problem is that the back ground is not changing at all, it still shows the primary color as back ground.
All i want to achieve is a group of buttons having triangular shape like this.
if i use 'Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar' as my AppTheme, everything works fine. But just changing the AppTheme to Material, the button group change to normal material style button as shown.The material theme is not setting the back ground to my state-list drawable. I tried with android:backgroundTint but not able to set a state-list as background.
This is my xml for one button.
<Button
android:id="#+id/forwardbtn"
android:layout_width="#dimen/joystick_mov_btn_size"
android:layout_height="#dimen/joystick_mov_btn_size"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/joystick_mov_btn_size"
android:background="#drawable/arrow_btn"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
android:rotation="270"/>
I don't want to change the AppTheme from material theme. I am using this approach is because i couldn't find any easy way to change the button shape other than this. I am spending too much time on this simple stuff please help..

Image "inside" button while keeping standard animations

I would like to define a button in Android, through XML, which, below the standard Button graphics (change color when clicked, slightly rounded edges,...), shows an image of my choice. I would like the final product to be somewhat like this:
I have tried change the src and background of an ImageButton, but it does not provide the intended effect. Could you please point me some way of achieving this?

Maybe that's not exactly what you mean by standard, but when you set a background, you end up having to recreate the behavior when the button is clicked. The best way to do it in Android is by using a selector as your button's background. Create a XML drawable with the selector in it.
Example:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/button_bg_pressed" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/button_bg_default" />
</selector>
That way, when your button is clicked, it will change the background to other image that does what you want.
EDIT:
There are other modifiers such as focused, if you need.
If you want Lollipop's ripple effects, I think you can create a Layout and put your button inside it. Change the Layout background and set the button background to transparent. If that doesn't work, try adding android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground" to your button.

As Paulo said, you can achieve the click effect with a selector.
See this answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/30192562) it gives the code for a very nice and customizable ripple effect.

android :Customizing Button with dynamic values

I want to customize Buttons for my application. The application has a color picker where the user will select color and I have to set that particular start/end color to the buttons. These colro values will be stored in an object "Utility".
Basically from start only, I want to use "Utility" object to set colors for background, text color, font, etc. And again when the color is changed by the user I got to change it to the buttons and refresh them. And also to save colors in a file, so next time user starts app, it comes up with the last color selected.
I couldn't find <selector> to be the best option, as I wont be able to change the color in xml. What can be the best option for such requirement ?
UPDATIONS :
#jitendra, from your answer I got somethign helpful. I use GradientDrawable to set colors of my buttons. In my onCreate() of the Activity, I call a method RefreshComponents() that sets the background of root, text color/size of buttons and gradient colors of the buttons. It works properly, but the only problem I see is the on applying GradientDrawable to the button the gap between 2 buttons is lost.
This is the image WITHOUT applying GradientDrawable :
On applying GradientDrawable the output is :
You see the size of button is increased a bit from all the sides. If I apply to next button also, they both touch eachother. My xml for the above is :
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mainroot" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingTop="35dip" android:paddingBottom="35dip"
android:paddingLeft="35dip" android:paddingRight="35dip"android:gravity="center" >
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mainrow1" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_marginBottom="15dip" android:gravity="center_horizontal" >
<Button android:text="Accounting" android:id="#+id/accBtn" android:layout_width="80dip" style="#style/TileButtonStyle" />
<Button android:text="Data" android:id="#+id/dataBtn" android:layout_width="80dip" android:layout_height="fill_parent"></Button>
<Button android:text="Information" android:id="#+id/infoBtn" android:layout_width="80dip" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:ellipsize="end"></Button>
</LinearLayout>
..... Other lineasr layout with same parameters as above child
And the GradientDrawable that I create is :
public static GradientDrawable getButtonDrawable(Button btn) {
int colors[] = {getStartColor(), getEndColor()};
GradientDrawable grad = new GradientDrawable(GradientDrawable.Orientation.LEFT_RIGHT, colors);
grad.setCornerRadius(5f);
return grad;
}
And finally in my onCreate(), I add :
GradientDrawable btnGradient = Utility.getButtonDrawable(btn1);
btn1.setBackgroundDrawable(btnGradient);
What is going wrong here ? Is the margin around the button becoming 0 ? Do I have to set bounds for the grad, or again set LayoutParams for the button ?
Any help is appreciative to help me achieve my goal.
Thanks

You can Create StateListDrawable Object dynamically in java file and set as background and sources of applcation components.

Android has Themes and Styles, but they are a development-time feature and can't be manipulated at runtime. However, different predefined themes can be applied at runtime.
So you can have a set of predefined themes, with fixed view properties (colors, fonts, etc..) and give user an option to choose a theme at runtime.
But, if you need to change every particular view property, then you will need to roll your own "theme" system. Which means you will need to have properties stored somewhere and applied each time a view is built.

Tvd! I incline to agree with Peter Knego and Jitender Sharma. Furthermore, I think/believe you can setOnClickListener on those buttons of yours and perform your color changing stuff with the code that rests inside the setOnClickListenermethod assigned to every button. In addition to this, you'll have to configure your color.xml file and custom themes. There's a lot of work to be done. I'm not really sure which is the best way though. I strongly suggest you to go through the android learning stuff I'd provided to you in my previous answer. Only they can give you a detailed insight and a solid idea to go ahead. All the best!

Oh I got the solution :
I added layout_marginRight attribute to buttons and that did the work.
Though I am still concerned, without GradientDrawable the buttons had margin betweenthem then after applying GradientDrawable why is the default margin lost ? Why is the need of additional layout_marginRight to be added ?
If anyone yet has answer for this, please let me know.
Thanks

How to remove Fading effect from Listview?

In my application I use a ListView and I need to remove the cacheColorHint at the bottom and top of the list. I tried to set the cacheColorHint to #00000000 but the have semi-transparent effect at the bottom/top.
Do you if it is possible to remove these effect?
Thanks

I think the problem is not with cacheColorHint. Maybe you are trying to deal with fading edge attribute of the listview.
Add this attribute to your listview and check it out,
android:fadingEdge="none"
EDIT
This attribute is deprecated and will be ignored as of API level 14 (ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH). Use android:fadingEdgeLength="0dp" instead. (from Zsolt Safrany's comment).

Take a look at this great article of Romain Guy: http://www.curious-creature.org/2008/12/22/why-is-my-list-black-an-android-optimization/
However to disable the optimization, simply use the transparent color #00000000 for the cacheColorHint, as you are doing, and set a solid background color on the ListView to replace its default semi-transparent background.