# Showing Text input shadow on Android

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/showing-text-input-shadow-on-android/740237>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/showing-text-input-shadow-on-android/740237 "2020-08-14T02:05:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![eddie.rebehy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/eddie.rebehy/32/67993_2.png) [@eddie.rebehy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eddie.rebehy)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/showing-text-input-shadow-on-android/740237/1 "2020-08-14T02:05:06Z")

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Has anyone been able to get the shadow on text inputs to show? nothing I do in the advanced tab seems to respond.

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/showing-text-input-shadow-on-android/740237/2 "2020-08-14T08:51:36Z")

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What property do you use and for which Android or iOS operating system?

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**Author:** ![eddie.rebehy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/eddie.rebehy/32/67993_2.png) [@eddie.rebehy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eddie.rebehy)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/showing-text-input-shadow-on-android/740237/3 "2020-08-14T08:59:49Z")

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I’m talking about these. I have never been able to get them to do anything.

I am using Android Live Testing.

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/showing-text-input-shadow-on-android/740237/4 "2020-08-14T09:02:00Z")

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For Android you need to use Elevation (integer value for example 5)

If you don’t like the effect, then you can make the shadow manually by using absolute positioning of the shadow under the component.

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/showing-text-input-shadow-on-android/740237/5 "2024-11-08T12:26:44Z")

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