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Android

Posted by Robb Schuneman
Robb Schuneman
4,849 Points

shadowColor not showing up on Crystal Ball app actual (run on my device)

This is a pretty small issue, overall, but I'm curious - While I know that the shadow effect won't show in the Eclipse preview - it's also failing to show on the emulator. I have the following settings within the TextView from my activity_main:

        android:shadowColor="@android:color/white"
        android:shadowRadius="10"
        android:textColor="@android:color/white"

Any idea what could be going wrong? Is this just me?

I am loving this project by the way - it's a fantastic introduction. -Robb

Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Are you still having trouble with this? Can you paste in the entire contents of your layout file?

1 Answer

Dardan Bala
Dardan Bala
2,204 Points
Dardan Bala
Dardan Bala
2,204 Points

Is it showing on the real device ?

Robb Schuneman
Robb Schuneman
4,849 Points

Unfortunately not. Oddly, if I set the shadowDx and shadowDy properties, it will show - but with a different effect than the video shows, obviously. It's puzzling me, because I've downloaded the original source and can't see a difference. Hmm.