Drop shadow not showing up for TextView

Question

I've tried the following code but the drop shadow will not show up, it just appears as regular white text.

TextView newsTitle = new TextView(mCtx);
newsTitle.setText(newsitems[position].getTitle());
newsTitle.setTextAppearance(mCtx, R.style.TextWithDropShadow);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams newsTitleParams = 
        new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
newsTitleParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ABOVE, linLayout.getId());
newsTitleParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);
newsTitle.setLayoutParams(newsTitleParams);
relLayout.addView(newsTitle);

And the style file is

<style name="TextWithDropShadow">
    <item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    <item name="android:shadowColor">#000000</item>
    <item name="android:shadowDx">2</item>
    <item name="android:shadowDy">2</item>
    <item name="android:shadowRadius">2</item>

Is there an issue with relative layouts and drop shadows perhaps?

Answer 1

Although this doesn't answer the problem at hand, a different approach works.

Adding this line

newsTitle.setShadowLayer(15, 0, 0, Color.BLACK);

Would still be interesting to know what I was doing wrong using the styles.