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[MaterialButton] android:elevation alway use default value

See original GitHub issue

Expected behavior: android:elevation works for MaterialButton even not applying a style.

Source code: NOT WORK

<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
        android:layout_height="64dp"
        android:layout_width="64dp"
        android:elevation="20dp"" />

WORK

<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
        style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.TextButton"
        android:layout_height="64dp"
        android:layout_width="64dp"
        android:elevation="20dp"" />

Android API version: Android 9

Material Library version: 1.2.0-alpha06

Device: XiaoMi A1

Thanks!

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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dsn5ftcommented, Apr 23, 2020

@jaychang0917 it looks like you have to null out the button’s default state list animator:

android:stateListAnimator="@null"

See this similar stack overflow post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38278179/android-elevation-not-showing-shadow-on-button/38278308

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mecoFaridcommented, Dec 4, 2021

android:stateListAnimator=“@null”

I am 100% sure this will fuck up some other functionality

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