android ics fading edges don't work

Question

somehow fading edges seems not to work for android ics (android 4+) for own views. If I test this layout on a lower android version it paints the fading edge but not on andr

Answer 1

You can try some ideas from answer in my question post: Set textview fading in Android 4.0.3

However, it seems like the fading edge won't work on 4.x somehow. The reason why? I don't know.