How to properly set elevation value to recyclerview?

Question

I am working on grid layout using recyclerview in android. The grid occupies a portion of the screen and has a shadow. To get the desired shadow effect I am using an elevati

Answer 1

I found the answer after a little bit of searching from here. The problem was the transparent background. Elevation works with only non-transparent backgrounds on views. To fix it we should set android:outlineProvider="bounds" on the view and android:clipToPadding="false" on the view's parent.

Hope it helps someone.