I am trying to create an inner shadow effect to a linear layout in my android project. I couldn't come up with a way to achieve the shadow effect on all 4 sides of a view. This answer helped https://stackoverflow.com/a/11579459/15746285,but still it is giving the shadow effect to only two sides.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<!-- "background shadow" -->
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#000000" />
<corners android:radius="15dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<!-- background color -->
<item
android:bottom="3dp"
android:left="3dp"
android:right="3dp"
android:top="3dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="@color/bb_grey" />
<corners android:radius="8dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<!-- over left shadow -->
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<gradient
android:angle="180"
android:centerColor="@color/bb_grey"
android:centerX="0.9"
android:endColor="#99000000"
android:startColor="#00FF0000"
/>
<corners android:radius="8dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<!-- over right shadow -->
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<gradient
android:angle="360"
android:centerColor="@color/bb_grey"
android:centerX="0.9"
android:endColor="#99000000"
android:startColor="#00FF0000" />
<corners android:radius="8dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<!-- over top shadow -->
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<gradient
android:angle="-90"
android:centerColor="@color/bb_grey"
android:centerY="0.9"
android:endColor="#99000000"
android:startColor="#00FF0000"
android:type="linear" />
<corners android:radius="8dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<!-- over bottom shadow -->
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle" >
<gradient
android:angle="90"
android:centerColor="@color/bb_grey"
android:centerY="0.9"
android:endColor="#99121111"
android:startColor="#00FF0000"
android:type="linear" />
<corners android:radius="8dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list
Tried the above code but ended up with only top and bottom shadows.