Drawable as Background for CardView

Question

the CardView ( android.support.v7.cardview ) stays white even though I set a backround drawable via android:backround - The documentation gives me the feeling that it should

Answer 1

You have 2 possible solutions.

1. Setting background programmatically:

cardView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.background)

2. Add some child to cardview that will fill cardview's bounds and set background on it:

This way you can also give images some shape that you can configure by the shape of cardview. Disadvantage is that it is bad for performance.