CardView not showing shadow elevation

Question

I am working with cardviews but the problem is my CardView is not showing any elevation or shadow. I have already tried some of the methods suggested in stackoverflow answer

Answer 1

Lot of good answers, but sometimes just one doesn't work for all. here's the one that worked for me after a lot of looking around,

Add this line to your CardView

app:cardUseCompatPadding="true"

So your cardview looks like this

Hope that works! Happy coding!