Android - shadow on text

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I am wondering how to add shadow on text in android   I have the following code which is applied on a bitmap and I wanted to be shadowed     paint setColor Color BLACK   paint setTextSize 55   paint setFakeBoldText false   paint setShadowLayer 1  0  0  Color BLACK     This only shadows my whole view

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lt style name  WhiteTextWithShadow  parent   android style TextAppearance  gt       lt item name  android shadowDx  gt 1 lt  item gt       lt item name  android shadowDy  gt 1 lt  item gt       lt item name  android shadowRadius  gt 1 lt  item gt       lt item name  android shadowColor  gt  android color black lt  item gt       lt item name  android textColor  gt  android color white lt  item gt   lt  style gt    then use as    lt TextView             android id    id text              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content              android textSize  15sp              tools text  Today  May 21              style   style WhiteTextWithShadow   gt

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lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent      android orientation  vertical      android padding  20dp   gt        lt TextView         android id    id textview          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout gravity  center horizontal          android shadowColor   000          android shadowDx  0          android shadowDy  0          android shadowRadius  50          android text  Text Shadow Example1          android textColor   FBFBFB          android textSize  28dp          android textStyle  bold    gt        lt TextView         android id    id textview2          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout gravity  center horizontal          android text  Text Shadow Example2          android textColor   FBFBFB          android textSize  28dp          android textStyle  bold    gt    lt  LinearLayout gt     In the above XML layout code  the textview1 is given with Shadow effect in the layout  below are the configuration items are  android shadowDx     specifies the X-axis offset of shadow  You can give -   values  where -Dx draws a shadow on the left of text and  Dx on the right  android shadowDy     it specifies the Y-axis offset of shadow  -Dy specifies a shadow above the text and  Dy specifies below the text   android shadowRadius     specifies how much the shadow should be blurred at the edges  Provide a small value if shadow needs to be prominent  android shadowColor     specifies the shadow color    Shadow Effect on Android TextView pragmatically  Use below code snippet to get the shadow effect on the second TextView pragmatically    TextView textv    TextView  findViewById R id textview2   textv setShadowLayer 30  0  0  Color RED              Output

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Draw 2 texts  one gray  it will be the shadow  and on top of it draw the second text  y coordinate 1px more then shadow text

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You should be able to add the style  like this  taken from source code for Ringdroid       lt style name  AudioFileInfoOverlayText  gt       lt item name  android paddingLeft  gt 4px lt  item gt       lt item name  android paddingBottom  gt 4px lt  item gt       lt item name  android textColor  gt  ffffffff lt  item gt       lt item name  android textSize  gt 12sp lt  item gt       lt item name  android shadowColor  gt  000000 lt  item gt       lt item name  android shadowDx  gt 1 lt  item gt       lt item name  android shadowDy  gt 1 lt  item gt       lt item name  android shadowRadius  gt 1 lt  item gt     lt  style gt    And in your layout  use the style like this     lt TextView android id    id info         android layout width  fill parent         android layout height  wrap content         style   style AudioFileInfoOverlayText         android gravity  center    gt    Edit  the source code can be viewed here  https   github com google ringdroid  Edit2  To set this style programmatically  you d do something like this  modified from this example to match ringdroid s resources from above   TextView infoTextView    TextView  findViewById R id info   infoTextView setTextAppearance getApplicationContext             R style AudioFileInfoOverlayText     The signature for setTextAppearance is     public void setTextAppearance  Context context  int resid       Since  API Level 1   Sets the text color  size  style  hint color  and   highlight color from the specified TextAppearance resource

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You can do both in code and XML  Only 4 basic things to be set    shadow color Shadow Dx - it specifies the X-axis offset of shadow  You can give -   values  where -Dx draws a shadow on the left of text and  Dx on the right shadow Dy - it specifies the Y-axis offset of shadow  -Dy specifies a shadow above the text and  Dy specifies below the text  shadow radius - specifies how much the shadow should be blurred at the edges  Provide a small value if shadow needs to be prominent  Else otherwise    e g       android shadowColor   color text shadow color      android shadowDx  -2      android shadowDy  2      android shadowRadius  0 01    This draws a prominent shadow on left-lower side of text  In code  you can add something like this       TextView item   new TextView getApplicationContext         item setText R string text       item setTextColor getResources   getColor R color general text color        item setShadowLayer 0 01f  -2  2    getResources   getColor R color text shadow color

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If you want to achieve a shadow like the one that Android does in the Launcher  we re managing these values  They re useful if you want to create TextViews that will appear as a Widget  without a background   android shadowColor   94000000  android shadowDy  2  android shadowRadius  4

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