CardView not showing Shadow in Android L

Question

My Cardview inside Listview is not showing shadow in Android L(Nexus 5). Also the round edges are not properly shown. Here is the code for Listview\'s Adapter View :

Answer 1

check hardwareAccelerated in manifest make it true , making it false removes shadows , when false shadow appears in xml preview but not in phone .

Answer 2

I think if you check your manifest first if you wrote android:hardwareAccelerated="false" you should make it true to having shadow for the card Like this answer here

Answer 3

My recyclerview was slow in loading so by reading the stackoverflow.com I changed hardwareAccelerated to "false" then the elevation is not showing in the device. The I changed back to true. It works for me.

Answer 4

Do not forget that to draw shadow you must use hardwareAccelerated drawing

hardwareAccelerated = true

hardwareAccelerated = false

See Android Hardware Acceleration for details

Answer 5

move your "uses-sdk" attribute in top of the manifest like the below answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/27658827/1394139