How to make glow effect around a bitmap?

The following code is what I got so far. However, there are 2 issues:

I want both inner and outer glow effects, which look similar to the Photoshop's blending options. But I only managed to make the outer glow, if I set BlurMaskFilter.Blur.INNER or other value, the whole image is blocked, instead of just edges.

Despite I set "FF" as alpha value, the glow color is still very dark.

Bitmap alpha = origin.extractAlpha();
BlurMaskFilter blurMaskFilter = new BlurMaskFilter(5, BlurMaskFilter.Blur.OUTER);

Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setMaskFilter(blurMaskFilter);
paint.setColor(0xffffffff);

Canvas canvas = new Canvas(origin);
canvas.drawBitmap(alpha, 0, 0, paint);

return origin;

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How about this:

<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="@color/Black"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView android:textColor="@color/White"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:text="Glowing Text"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="2dp"
    android:shadowColor="@color/White"
    android:shadowDx="0"
    android:shadowDy="0"
    android:shadowRadius="3" />
 </LinearLayout>

found here: http://blog.stylingandroid.com/archives/378:

answered 2011-08-07T06:30:50.953

How to make glow effect around a bitmap?

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