How to add shadow in android button?

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I am a beginner in android and has created an app which has a button,I am using a png background in that android button as the button's background and wants to add a shadow to it using.Should I go with elevation technique or using the corner coloring technique. Please guide me how to do it? Thanks

Possible duplicate of [How to provide shadow to Button](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15333529/how-to-provide-shadow-to-button) — dustinos3, Nov 20 '18 at 18:50
[How to provide shadow to Button](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15333529/how-to-provide-shadow-to-button) — Nero, Nov 20 '18 at 18:50

Seymur Mammadli · Answer 1 · 2018-11-20T20:01:23.803

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For getting shadow effect on your button or views add the line android:elevation="8dp" on your button(view) at layout file. Since you are new on android don't forget to search before posting a question. Yours sincerely

Edited: for enabling the elevation parameter of the button you should also disable stateListAnimator property of the button by adding android:stateListAnimator="@null" to your button.

edited Nov 20 '18 at 20:01

answered Nov 20 '18 at 19:54

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i want lighter color shadow like white shadow on black background – Vijay Tiwari Nov 21 '18 at 15:24
any further help – Vijay Tiwari Nov 21 '18 at 18:32
Colored shadows are not supported natively until Android 9.0, so to get that you need to make shadows using gradients, background graphics or use a 3rd party library, like Carbon (https://github.com/ZieIony/Carbon) – Zielony Nov 22 '18 at 18:41

How to add shadow in android button?

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