title: How to make a glow effect on the text in TextClock android
body: <p>Can anyone help me make the <strong>glow effect</strong> in <code>TextClock</code> i have tried the method stated in this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5692804/how-to-make-text-glow">link</a>! but it has no effect can anyone help please.</p>
  
  <p>This is what i am doing using back support library of <code>textClock</code> and want glow in it</p>
  
  <pre><code>        &lt;cz.vhrdina.textclockbackport.TextClock
          android:id="@+id/digitalClock"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
          android:layout_centerVertical="true"
          android:shadowColor="@color/red"
          android:shadowDx="0.0"
          android:shadowDy="0.0"
          android:shadowRadius="8"
          android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
          android:textColor="@color/white" /&gt;
  </code></pre>