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Android TextView Shadow

How to add a shadow in a text view? How to improve the text readability on widgets?

There’s four properties on TextView related to shadows.

First a a normal TextView XML declaration.



Now the same TextView with the four shadow properties, the color, the x,y offset and the blur radius.



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  1. Vikram Vikram

    The graphics preview in the layout editor may not be accurate:
    * Paint.setShadowLayer is not supported.

    I am getting d above error wen i executed d code of textview shadow
    Kindly provide a solution
    Thanks in advance

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