Android ScrollView clipping child elevation shadow

Question

As the title states, I'm trying to put a CardView inside a ScrollView, but the CardView elevation shadow is being but off by it's parent...

This is the Layout XML:

<FrameLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".TestScrollViewActivity">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="128dp"
        android:background="?colorPrimary"
        android:gravity="bottom"
        android:minHeight="?actionBarSize"/>

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:clipToPadding="false"
        android:paddingBottom="40dp"
        android:paddingTop="60dp">

        <android.support.v7.widget.CardView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:elevation="4dp"
            app:cardBackgroundColor="@android:color/white"
            app:cardCornerRadius="0dp">

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="400dp"
                android:layout_height="600dp"
                android:orientation="vertical">

            </LinearLayout>

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

    </ScrollView>

</FrameLayout>

The only workaround that I found is to add a padding to the parent ScrollView or add a margin to the child CardView...

Is there any option to prevent this from happening without using a padding/margin?

Thanks.

Edit:

This is how the layout looks like without setting a padding on the parent scroll view, as it can be seen, the left and right shadows are being cut off:

Now, if a padding is added to the parent scrollview sides, the shadows are being drawn correctly as it can be seen here:

So, my main question here is this the only way to achieve that?, or there is a tag or a configuration on the parent view that allow to correctly draw it's children views?

Answer 1

this just worked for me in a similar problem:

the right way to get a child view to show shadow is to set padding on the parent and set android:clipToPadding="false" on that parent.

as found here: Android "elevation" not showing a shadow