How to create a shadow for a layout or ImageView?

Question

i am trying to coding the below image for android app design, i can not get shadow as same as image how i can do it perfectly? and can control with opacity, degree and color of shadow?

Answer 1

You can use cardView which has an elevation attribute which gives shadows to your card view.

also there are third party libraries which you can use like this:

https://github.com/loopeer/shadow

also here is Google documentation which describes how you should use shadows in your ui:

https://developer.android.com/training/material/shadows-clipping