making the background translucent

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I want the background of my textView or Linear layout to be translucent. I have attached an image as an example of what I want to achieve.

translucent http://imagecdn3.maketecheasier.com/2011/03/kde-style-oxygen-transparent.jpg

I don't want to make the whole activity translucent but just a layout field in it. How can I get this?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '12 at 12:14

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See Translucent theme, descibed here:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html

answered Oct 26 '12 at 12:14

Marcin Orlowski

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but won't setting the whole activity's theme as translucent make all the layouts translucent? – Ankush Oct 26 '12 at 12:25
no. docs say "Or if you want the **background** to be transparent, use the Translucent theme:" – Marcin Orlowski Oct 26 '12 at 12:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '12 at 12:14

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create an activity
set activity’s theme as “@android:style/Theme.Translucent” in AndroidManifest.xml
that’s all

Check this for more details.

answered Oct 26 '12 at 12:14

Jainendra

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This will make the whole activity translucent which I don't want as I have many layouts and I only want one of them translucent – Ankush Oct 26 '12 at 12:22

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 23 '14 at 02:12

For making the activity Completely transparent,

main.xml- android:background="@android:color/transparent"

manifest.xml- android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"

For making activity Translucent

#00FFFFFF -  Full Transparency
#10FFFFFF -  90% Transparency
#20FFFFFF -  80% Transparency
#30FFFFFF -  70% Transparency
#40FFFFFF -  60% Transparency
#50FFFFFF -  50% Transparency
#60FFFFFF -  40% Transparency
#70FFFFFF -  30% Transparency
#80FFFFFF -  20% Transparency
#90FFFFFF -  10% Transparency
#99FFFFFF -  01% Transparency

Usage- in layout.xml, android:background="20FFFFFF"

here "20" is transparency and "FFFFFF" is color Get HTML color codes from http://html-color-codes.info/

making the background translucent

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