How do I give padding to CardView?

How do I give padding to CardView?

You have two options:

1. Set padding at run time using View. setPadding() and be careful to adjust for the shadows (but only prior to L-preview!).
2. Place everything inside a layout that specifies padding.

What is CardView elevation?

CardView is a new widget in Android that can be used to display any sort of data by providing a rounded corner layout along with a specific elevation. CardView is the view that can display views on top of each other. This widget can be easily seen in many different Android Apps.

How do I remove CardView padding?

I found the way to clear this padding (also to add padding for content) is to use CardView’s contentPaddingLeft(/Right/Top/Bottom) attributes. If you want to clear the default padding, you can set the contentPadding to minus value. If you want to add content padding, set the contentPadding to the value you want.

What layout does CardView inherit?

As I already mentioned, a CardView is a view container or ViewGroup that inherits its nature from FrameLayout which further inherits from ViewGroup itself.

How do I customize my CardView?

Android CardView Customizing the CardView

1. card_view:cardElevation attribute add elevation in CardView.
2. card_view:cardBackgroundColor attribute is used to customize background color of CardView’s background(you can give any color).
3. card_view:cardCornerRadius attribute is used to curve 4 edges of CardView.

How do I change the background on CardView?

Use these properties to customize the appearance of the `CardView` widget:

1. To set the corner radius in your layouts, use the card_view:cardCornerRadius attribute.
2. To set the corner radius in your code, use the CardView.
3. To set the background color of a card, use the card_view:cardBackgroundColor attribute.

Is CardView a ViewGroup?

How do I put a background on my card?

How do I create a custom view?

Creating custom views. By extending the View class or one of its subclasses you can create your custom view. For drawing view use the onDraw() method. In this method you receive a Canvas object which allows you to perform drawing operations on it, e.g. draw lines, circle, text or bitmaps.

How do you put drawable background on CardView?

First, add a CardView dependency to the application-level build. gradle file. Then create a drawable background for the cards. For that, create a new drawable resource file inside the drawable folder.

How do you make a circle in CardView?

To achieve a circular shape using Card view you can set the shape property, android:shape=”ring”. You don’t need to add the shape attribute as the cardCornerRadius is enough.

How do I change the color of my shadow in CardView?

Well, it is not possible to change the color of the shadow of cardview before API 28 but we can add a custom shadow behind a layout. You need to use a drawable background ( shadow. xml ) in the parent layout which is looking like a shadow. You can replace FF46A9 in shadow.