Android Tutorial => Getting Started with CardView

Example

CardView is a member of the Android Support Library, and provides a layout for cards.

To add CardView to your project, add the following line to your build.gradle dependencies.

compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:25.1.1'

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In your layout you can then add the following to get a card.

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
        xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <!-- one child layout containing other layouts or views -->     

</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

You can then add other layouts inside this and they will be encompassed in a card.

Also, CardView can be populated with any UI element and manipulated from code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/card_view"
    android:layout_margin="5dp"
    card_view:cardBackgroundColor="#81C784"
    card_view:cardCornerRadius="12dp"
    card_view:cardElevation="3dp"
    card_view:contentPadding="4dp" >

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="16dp" >

        <ImageView
            android:layout_width="100dp"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:id="@+id/item_image"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
            />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/item_title"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/item_image"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:textSize="30sp"
            />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/item_detail"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/item_image"
            android:layout_below="@+id/item_title"
            />

    </RelativeLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

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