How to make text glow?

Farhan picture Farhan · Apr 17, 2011 · Viewed 41.4k times · Source

Can we apply glowing effect to any text like shown below:

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Updated: Please also tell me what things i need to create something like this:enter image description here

Do i need a Special font for this?

Answer

Bemmu picture Bemmu · Apr 17, 2011

How about setting a blue shadow for the textview by using android:shadowColor and setting android:shadowDx and android:shadowDy to zero, with a pretty big android:shadowRadius?