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Android background with shadow on all sides

Android'd CardView provides an elevation property but the casted shadow is at an angle and thus only shows at the bottom of the view. I'd like to cast a shadow on all sides for a pill-shaped view.
Like so:

you can achieve this by adding the following attributes to your CardView tag in XML
xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
card_view:cardCornerRadius="16dp"
card_view:cardElevation="16dp"
if 16dp is small for you, you can make it higher

Set elevation to top of tablayout

I used default elevation attribute in xml but the shadow appears bottom of layout, so i want to display the shadow to the top of tablayout like this

Shadow on curved image view on toolbar

I have a bottom toolbar that has a fab like button in the center.
I am trying to add shadow to this bar. It consists of :
Parent RelativeLayout
RelativeLayout with 4 image views.
ImageView centered in the toolbar(the circle button)
I want to add shadow effect to this toolbar. If I elevate the bottom bar then it hides the ImageView that is not included in the RelativeLayout.
If I also elevate that ImageView I get a Circular shadow effect like below on that ImagView. I only want the top curved portion of the icon to have a shadow effect.

Removing the margin from bottom in android Relativelayout

Hello i have used a Relativelayout in android using XML but when i see image in graphical layout there is small margin left at bottom in different screensizes.How to remove that margin.I also used a ScrollView in layout.

I think you have to set bottom margin in negative
like
android:layout_marginBottom="-10dip"

Check whether you have used padding for your layout,
Better post your layout file and/or screenshot.

How can i make shadow effect in linear layout in android?

How can i make shadow effect in linear layout in android ?

You could insert a text view below with the background set to a gradient image.