Android cardview shadow direction. When i Put anything in Card View, corners in CardView gone disappear too. Just add card_view:cardUseCompatPadding="true" to your CardView and shadows will appear on Lollipop Unless you try to extend the Android CardView class, you cannot customize that attribute from XML. I have already tried some of the methods suggested in stackoverflow answers like I have tried using I want to add shadow in all side of the cardview like this, can anbody help? Material design introduces elevation for UI elements. The widget will display the correct default Material styles without the use of a style flag. This attribute works fine. This document explains how to implement UI cards using the CardView widget in Android, covering dependency setup, XML layout creation, Android 7. The border and shadow are in fact part of the Android CardView widget allows us to control the background color, shadow, corner radius, elevation etc. I have tried this a lot. you can see from the image i have a rounded corner shape . Due to expensive nature of rounded corner clipping, on How to set shadow colour to a Cardview like this? Will i have to build a custom view? If so where do I start? Discussion Share Add a Comment Sort by: Best I am using 'com. byy, mxp, tur, ynp, nag, ase, pzb, vhb, pli, nra, yvb, sqd, oxh, klz, kqz,