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Android Toolbar dropshadow on all API levels
How can you get a Toolbar dropshadow on all API levels on Android? I created a repo to demonstrate this exact issue :
https://github.com/lawloretienne/ToolbarExample
I only see a dropshadow on API level 21+ .
- smartician 11y agoThere are a few topics on StackOverflow where this gets answered. The short answer: Toolbar is using the "elevation" property, which only Lollipop and above support natively. A simple solution is to manually add the shadow as a drawable to the Toolbar, and hide that when running on SDK 21+.
- lawlorslaw 11y agoYa I was hoping that was not the case anymore. I have a temporary work around that adds a dropshadow view on the layout file while the layout-v21 file does NOT have the dropshadow view. Which seems to work, but I wanted to see if there is a better "Best Practice".