How to create Google + cards UI in a list view?

Question

I want to create a listView of cards, but after reading this blog post goolge-plus-layout, I\'m cards are a viable solution for a list of anything. The animation part seems

Answer 1

You can create a custom drawable, and apply that to each of your listview elements.

I use this one for cards in my UI. I don't think there is significant performance issues with this approach.

The drawable code (in drawable\big_card.xml) looks like this:

I apply the background to my listview elements like this:

If you want to add this as a background to any View (not just a list), you just make the custom drawable that View's background element: