Default action bar elevation

Question

I want to use an elevation in a custom layout element and I want to set in XML the value of that element using the default action bar elevation value. I can\'t find a way to get

Answer 1

The standard elevation of the app bar is 4dp according to material design spec. Here is the link: https://material.io/guidelines/material-design/elevation-shadows.html#elevation-shadows-shadows

Answer 2

Default value is 8dp, create dimen with this value and use on whole project, I got it from sources, but the material design guidelines state the action bar elevation should be 4dp.

Answer 3

Here is the official resource available for the elevations.

Answer 4

The default elevation of the action bar is 4dp. I did a little experiment by creating one custom view right below the action bar and set its elevation to 4dp. So, both were looking the same. Official documentation also mentioned 4dp standard elevation for the action bar.

1. Nav drawer: 16dp
2. App bar: 4dp
3. Card: 1dp to 8dp
4. FAB: 6dp
5. Button: 2dp to 8dp
6. Dialog: 24dp

Here App bar refers to Action bar.

Reference: Elevation