Elevation on Android Lollipop not working

Question

I am trying to make use of the elevation property in the latest Android Lollipop preview release. I set the targetSdk to 21 and the theme to Material. Next i added a backgro

Answer 1

For some reason if you set a solid color with a transparency, the elevation shadow does not show up.

In your example, I changed #7d0073ff to #0073ff and I got a shadow.

This is probably a bug, as in their documentation it gives a similar example using a translucent background color.

Answer 2

ADDING android:elevation shadow to an ImageView:

android:clipToPadding="false"
+
android:outlineProvider="bounds"
+
android:elevation="2dp"

Answer 3

be aware, if you have the following line in the manifest then shadows wont show:

android:hardwareAccelerated="false"