Android Drop Shadow on View

Question

I have done some extensive searching for code examples on this but cannot find anything.

In particular, I am looking to add a shadow to a png drawable I am using in

Answer 1

This helped me to get the shadow working so I wanted to share the working code:

private Bitmap createShadowBitmap(Bitmap originalBitmap) {
    BlurMaskFilter blurFilter = new BlurMaskFilter(5, BlurMaskFilter.Blur.OUTER);
    Paint shadowPaint = new Paint();
    shadowPaint.setMaskFilter(blurFilter);

    int[] offsetXY = new int[2];
    Bitmap shadowImage = originalBitmap.extractAlpha(shadowPaint, offsetXY);

    /* Need to convert shadowImage from 8-bit to ARGB here. */
    Bitmap shadowImage32 = shadowImage.copy(Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888, true);
    Canvas c = new Canvas(shadowImage32);
    c.drawBitmap(originalBitmap, -offsetXY[0], -offsetXY[1], null);

    return shadowImage32;
}