Using RecyclerView with Card

Question

I have some RecyclerView with Card items. And on preLollipop devices it looks fine. But on Lollipop it looks without any spacing between child cards. I tried to use margin and p

Answer 1

This is happening because on L, shadows are outside the the View bounds but pre-L, they are inside the View (unfortunately there is no real shadow support pre-L).

If you want CardView to have same spacing on L as well, set cardUseCompatPadding to true.