Draw ring with black shadow - android

I'm trying to draw a ring with black shadow border. I'm able to achieve this with custom view when I use any color like RED, but what I want is a transparent circle with black shadow border.
Paint mPaint = new Paint();
mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
mPaint.setColor(Color.RED);
mPaint.setShadowLayer(5.5f, 6.0f, 6.0f, Color.BLACK);
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
canvas.drawCircle(70, 70, 50, mPaint); }

What's happening here is that it's drawing a filled in transparent circle, and setting the shadow layer to that. Since the circle is transparent, you see the whole shadow of the object through it, not just the edges you're looking for. The shadow is black, so it looks like the whole circle is black.
Try setting the Paint style to Stroke. That should leave the middle transparent, and just draw the shadow of the outer ring. It may draw the shadow in both directions, though(inner and outer), so you may have to adjust the shadow radius accordingly.
mPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);

Are you targeting Android SDK 11 or higher? Since HoneyComb shadow rendring with hardware support had been disabled, you habe to turn on software rendering for this layer. You have to annotate your function for setting up the paint like this:
#TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
private void setUpPaint(){
mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
mPaint.setColor(Color.RED);
mPaint.setShadowLayer(5.5f, 6.0f, 6.0f, 0x80000000);
/* --- for android:minSdkVersion="11" --- */
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
setLayerType(LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, mPaint);
}
}

You'll need to effectively draw the shadow using a fully transparent colour, as you've found so far, then remove that coloured center using PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR - leaving just the shadow on the outside.
PorterDuffXfermode mXferMode = new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR);
// draw the src/dst example into our offscreen bitmap
int sc = canvas.saveLayer(0, 0, 70 + 50, 70 + 50, null,
Canvas.MATRIX_SAVE_FLAG |
Canvas.CLIP_SAVE_FLAG |
Canvas.HAS_ALPHA_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG |
Canvas.FULL_COLOR_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG |
Canvas.CLIP_TO_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG);
canvas.drawCircle(70, 70, 50, shadowPaint);
shadowPaint.setXfermode(mXferMode);
canvas.drawCircle(70, 70, 50, shadowPaint);
shadowPaint.setXfermode(null);
canvas.restoreToCount(sc);

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I want only the circle which is black color to appear as my view but I get the red color as well.
I tried using canvas.clipPath() it dint work. I searched the net and found out we need to disable hardware acceleration to get it work. I tried that but it still dint work.
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Code:
And here I am clipping
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In your case you draw a red background before clipping the canvas - so it went all over the canvas, then you clipped it but draw only inside the path, so the clipping was useless.
you can get what you need that in that code:
// Do not set any background to the view before
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super.onDraw(canvas);
this.canvas = canvas;
path.reset();
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top = 50;
right = getWidth()- 50;
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That way you draw the background after pathClip
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First, You can't split a TextView. But you can achieve by setting a right image as android:setDrawableBottom="yourImage"
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Something you might consider would be:
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#Override
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I had exactly the same problem.
I managed to fix it by extending TextView and overriding onDraw method.
Here is how it looks like
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// draw the shadow
getPaint().setShadowLayer(1, 1, 1, 0xbf000000); // or whatever shadow you use
getPaint().setShader(null);
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super.onDraw(canvas);
}
However this method probably won't work if you want to use colors with transparency in your gradient.
Thank you for sidon's answer. It helped me.
And I add this answer because I found a way to use colors with transparency in gradient.
So, please refer to sidon's answer first and upvote his one.
I found below at "setShadowLayer" Method Description from here.
The alpha of the shadow will be the paint's alpha if the shadow color is opaque, or the alpha from the shadow color if not.
So, point is shadowColor must be not opaque to use colors with transparency in gradient.
Here is code.
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// draw the shadow
getPaint().setShader(null);
setTextColor(0x00ffffff); // set the paint's alpha by 00
getPaint().setShadowLayer(3.0f, 1.5f, 1.8f, shadowColor); // shadowColor must be not opaque
super.onDraw(canvas);
// draw the gradient filled text
getPaint().clearShadowLayer();
setTextColor(0xffffffff); // set the paint's alpha by ff
getPaint().setShader(new LinearGradient(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), 0x7fff8809, 0x7f09ffff, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP)); // or whatever gradient/shader you use
super.onDraw(canvas);
}
If shadowColor is opaque, you may change it as not opaque by reduce the alpha by one.
if((shadowColor >>> 24) == 0xff)
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Thank you once again for sidon's answer.
2018-12-16 Edit:
If you have the same alpha value about colors, below code would better.
public class TextView_Gradient extends TextView {
public TextView_Gradient(Context context) {
super(context);
setTextColor(0x3fffffff); // set the paint's alpha by 3f
}
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// draw the shadow
getPaint().setShader(null);
// shadowColor must be opaque.
getPaint().setShadowLayer(3.0f, 1.5f, 1.8f, shadowColor);
super.onDraw(canvas);
// draw the gradient filled text
getPaint().clearShadowLayer();
// gradient colors must be opaque, too.
getPaint().setShader(new LinearGradient(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), 0xffff8809, 0xff09ffff, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP));
super.onDraw(canvas);
}
}
Because the alpha of the shadow will be the paint's alpha if the shadow color is opaque. And the alpha of the gradient colors is the paint's alpha if the alpha of the gradient colors are ff(opaque).
(Or the final alpha of text can be scaled again by the gradient color's alpha value provided that the paint's alpha is ff.)
Output:

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