Inner shadow on Android TextView

Question

Is it possible to put an inner shadow on Android TextView text like this:

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is a duplicate of the question I asked a few months ago: Is there a way to add an inner shadow to the TextView on Android?

There is no suitable way to do this at the moment. But if you try to play with alpha the colors of the text and shadow, you may get something close to the inner shadow.

Answer 2

MagicTextView will do internal shadows.

  <com.qwerjk.better_text.MagicTextView xmlns:qwerjk="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.qwerjk.better_text" android:textSize="42dp" android:textColor="#FFffff00" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textStyle="bold" android:padding="10dp" qwerjk:innerShadowDy="3" qwerjk:innerShadowColor="#FF000000" qwerjk:innerShadowRadius="5" android:text="InnerShadow" /> 

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Answer 3

Shadow effect:

  <TextView android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:paddingLeft="5sp" android:paddingTop="15sp" android:paddingBottom="15sp" android:typeface="normal" android:text="I'm normal (bold) font but I have a shadow" android:textSize="16sp" android:textStyle="bold" android:shadowColor ="#0f0f0f" android:shadowRadius="1.6" android:shadowDx="1.5" android:shadowDy="1.3" android:textColor="#000000" android:background="#ffffff" /> 

Or you can use your own fonts, put them in the res / assets folder:

 TextView txt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.custom_font); Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "my_font.ttf"); txt.setTypeface(font); 

Or check the following links for details:

http://www.barebonescoder.com/2010/05/android-development-using-custom-fonts/

and

http://www.giantflyingsaucer.com/blog/?p=1421