Any way to set the text shadow for a SpannableString?

I've got an Android home screen widget, with a TextView on it.. Unfortunately, I'm having some issues styling it..

I want to apply a dynamic (changing from code) shadow to the text, and I'm not sure how to do this. I can set the shadow in the layout, but if I want to change it in code, there's no way to do this over a RemoteView!

I thought I could do this with a SpannableString, but I can't find anything useful.. If I use a TextAppearanceSpan in it, it will ignore the shadow attributes from the style. Furthermore, the 开发者_开发百科moment I start using a SpannableString on a TextView it starts ignoring the shadow that I applies to the TextView :(

What's wrong with that, and what's my best course of action here?

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Edited: this won't work on widgets since custom views cannot be used there. But it might be of some help for someone trying to set it on a remote view somewhere else.

See http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10029

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A way of doing this would be to make a custom TextView called ShadowyTextView, with a method for each value I want to set.

Then is just a matter of writing something like:

remoteViews.setInt(R.id.myShadowyText, "setShadowColor", someColor);

And so the attribute is set by reflection.

Maybe not the most elegant solution, but couldn't found anything better.

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Try with the following code

TextView textHello = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.hello);
        textHello.setShadowLayer(
          5f,   //float radius
          10f,  //float dx
          10f,  //float dy 
          0xFFffffff //int color
          );