android-cardview

Cardview – white border around card

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I know it’s a bit late, but for anyone having a similar problem: I had the same issue: A white border was shown on pre-lollipop devices. I solved it setting the cardPreventCornerOverlap to false on your XML. Like this: <android.support.v7.widget.CardView xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” xmlns:card_view=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”match_parent” android:layout_marginRight=”6dp” card_view:cardPreventCornerOverlap=”false”> <LinearLayout android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”match_parent” android:orientation=”vertical”> <!– some other views –> … Read more

CardView goes on top of FrameLayout, but declared first

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In case someone gets here and the solution for setting elevation doesn’t work for them (like in my case, where I needed to draw an image above the CardView and having a shadow on it was not acceptable), you can solve the issue by wrapping the CardView inside another FrameLayout. In the example provided, it … Read more

Center a CardView in a RecyclerView with only one element

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I’ve implemented simple HelloWorld app, which shows list of cities and based on how many museums it has – shows full-sized city-card or the centered, wrapped version of it. (Yes, I’m not exactly good at arts 🙂 ) Here’s how I did it. TL;DR: The crucial part is ItemDecoration: set proper items offset and you’ll … Read more

What is the best practice to group items into CardView?

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TL;DR: It’s not one CardView which hosts elements, it’s several successive CardViews with different margins: For the top CardView in group: android:layout_marginTop=”5dp” android:layout_marginLeft=”5dp” android:layout_marginRight=”5dp” android:layout_marginBottom=”0dp” card_view:cardCornerRadius=”0dp” For the bottom CardView in group: android:layout_marginTop=”0dp” android:layout_marginLeft=”5dp” android:layout_marginRight=”5dp” android:layout_marginBottom=”5dp” card_view:cardCornerRadius=”0dp” And the middle one, as set margins Top&Bottom to 0: android:layout_marginTop=”0dp” android:layout_marginLeft=”5dp” android:layout_marginRight=”5dp” android:layout_marginBottom=”0dp” card_view:cardCornerRadius=”0dp” About Inbox app: … Read more