ImageView elevation: shadow is cropped at the bottom

Question

I want to add shadow around ImageView

I tried elevation

<ImageView
    android:layout_margin="10dp"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_icon_compass"
    android:elevation="2dp"
    android:background="@drawable/ic_circle_white"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:layout_width="40dp"
    android:layout_height="40dp"/>

Layout Preview works fine

But on the device it looks like this

(shadow is cropped at the bottom)

Why does it happen?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '18 at 13:08

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It looks like parent view is clipping the shadow. Look for the parent that is clipping the shadow it might not be the immidiate parent. Add this to the parent view/s in the xml and check.

android:clipChildren="false"

answered Dec 17 '18 at 13:08

karan

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it didn't change anything – user924 Dec 17 '18 at 13:16
I also tried to add `android:clipToPadding="false"` to parent of this ImageView but it didn't help – user924 Dec 17 '18 at 13:37

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '18 at 13:16

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instead of deciding the height and width in the xml , try to mention in the drawable and instead of using

android:src="@drawable/ic_icon_compass"

use

android:background="@drawable/ic_icon_compass"

answered Dec 17 '18 at 13:16

amit lalwani

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ImageView elevation: shadow is cropped at the bottom

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