CardView inside RecyclerView has extra margins

Question

I am using a CardView as element inside a RecyclerView. When doing so android automatically generates margins between the cardView and the screen and between different cardViews.

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView 
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@color/galleryCardBGColor"
app:cardCornerRadius="2dp" >

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
    android:id="@+id/my_recycler_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical" />

I followed the instructions in the link to integrate them into my project: using-recyclerview-and-cardview-in-eclipse-adt

I had been previously using a linearlayout for the list element :

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

This was working perfectly fine, with no margins whatsoever between the list elements. I have now just placed the linear layout inside the cardView which has resulted in extra margins.

The reason being that i want to provide exact margins to these elements, and any margins I supply now is being added over to this preexisting margins. I have tried supplying zero/negative paddings/margins to the cardView element but none of these work.

Any idea, I can remove these margins or otherwise know exactly how much margin is being added.

Answer 1

It worked for me. Use:

 card_view:cardElevation="0dp"
 card_view:cardMaxElevation="0dp"