How to implement the Material-design Elevation for Pre-lollipop

Question

Google has shown some nice ways that elevation effect are shown on Lollipop here.

android:elevation=\"2dp\"

for buttons,

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Answer 1

to add @Ranjith Kumar answer

To add background color to the drawable (example button background color), we need to get drawable programatically.

first get the drawable

Drawable drawable = getResources().getDrawable(android.R.drawable.dialog_holo_light_frame);

set the color

drawable.setColorFilter(new PorterDuffColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.color_primary), PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY));

then set it to the view.

view.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);

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