Floating action button's shadow clipping at view margins

Question

I have a floating action button anchored to the bottom right of a coordinator layout. It is 16dp from the margins of the view (the margins are included by default and specif

Answer 1

I had the same issue for two ExtendedFloatingActionButton which were in a horizontal LinearLayout, so the two buttons could go next to one another. The grey shadow only appeared on the bottom two corners on the floating buttons but I had a bottom margin set on the linear layout so wasn't sure why there was clipping.

I realised even though I had added android:clipChildren="false" to the LinearLayout my code was wrapped in a ConstraintLayout which meant the buttons were still be cut off.

To solve this issue just add android:clipChildren="false" to the parent, which in my case was the ConstraintLayout.

Example of my code: