Cardview shadow not appearing in lollipop devices?

Question

Am using the cardview in my android app. However the shadow is not showing. Here is the xml layout

The default optionsmenu shadow also not showing.

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Answer 1

As mentioned there CardView not showing Shadow in Android L make sure that you are drawing your view using hardwareAccelerated = true

hardwareAccelerated = true

hardwareAccelerated = false

See Android Hardware Acceleration for details