I am trying to get it so my listview items are elevated and show a drop shadow. Here is my list view item layout <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" ...

Lollipop has all those new functions for the "View" class. What exactly are the differences between them, and why do we need so many functions for them? I've read the docs, and I want to understan...

I tried both features and I don't know really why I should use elevation instead of translationz or viceversa. Both generate shadow when I used them. I should use at same time (with the same va...

I want to remove the shadow below the ActionBar. I know that I need to change the elevation to 0dp, but I want to do it in the theme. For Android 4.4- I use : <item name="android:windowContent...

This is a simple question: I use the new support library, which allows me to have a Toolbar instance and even set it as the actionBar of the activity (or use the default one). How do I customize ...

I Have a CustomView working on pre-Lollipop, now I tried to apply android:elevation and android:translateZ on Lollipop devices but doesn't seems to work. <com.example.CustomView android:id="@+...

I've tried to reproduce Google's elevation example presented here: https://developer.android.com/training/material/shadows-clipping.html But for me no shadows are showing up. Not in the Android S...

Today I developed my first Android L Apps, and read through the d.android.com/preview tips. They said that android:elevation would show me shadows. But look at this: <TextView android:id="@+id...