Android Toolbar dropshadow on all API levels

#1

Post by lawlorslaw » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 11:34 PM UTC

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+ .

Re: Android Toolbar dropshadow on all API levels

#2

Post by smartician » Fri, Jun 26, 2015, 12:19 AM UTC

There 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+.

Re: Android Toolbar dropshadow on all API levels

#3

Post by lawlorslaw » Fri, Jun 26, 2015, 12:23 AM UTC

smartician wrote: post #2

There 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+.

Ya 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".