outline text Android Studio

Question

I've been looking how to outline the a TextView and so far I just found this question, but is from the 2010. I think that nowadays there is a standard way to outline the text but so far I haven't managed to make it. what I have in my code is the following:

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="#3e3e3e"
    android:shadowColor="#ffffff"
    />

But I get the following rendering error:

Paint.setShadowLayer is not supported

I would appreciate to know if there is another way to outline the text or how to handle this error! Thank you!

Did you try to run your project with this error? What is the result? Preview doesn't support everything. — Oğuzhan Döngül, Dec 03 '15 at 15:15

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 03 '15 at 15:19

Try to Set shadow radius etc. Only setting color cannot make the shadow appear.

Example:

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="#3e3e3e"
    android:shadowColor="#ffffff"
    android:shadowDx="2"
    android:shadowDy="2"
    android:shadowRadius="1"
/>

outline text Android Studio

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