Drop shadow around all the four sides of an EditText in Android Studio

Question

As far as my knowledge aids me, there isn\'t any property to drop shadow around an EditText field, that can be set in the layout file. I searched for the problem and found s

Answer 1

There are some better ways to get shadow around your edit text without using layer-list :

#1

Wrap your EditText in a CardView like this :

OUTPUT :

2

Use a 9 patch as the background of your EditText :

OUTPUT

Read more about 9patch here.

Here's a great online tool to generate 9 patch shadow.