Android: Transparent Icon bar?

Question

I'd like to use these transparent icon bars, seen in the screenshot on this page. Does anybody know which component this is?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '12 at 16:08

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They are presumably a LinearLayout with a translucent background.

answered Nov 04 '12 at 16:08

CommonsWare

Thanks, it works with FrameLayout best. See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6690530/how-to-show-one-layout-on-top-of-the-other-programmatically-in-my-case – Bevor Nov 04 '12 at 19:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '12 at 21:29

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Google Maps uses ActionBar with the FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY set. In phones, they also enable the split ActionBar.

answered Nov 04 '12 at 21:29

sriramramani

Thanks, I think this fits best for my attempts. – Bevor Nov 05 '12 at 07:44
Now I see that it's available from 3.0. Unfortunately I can't develop for 3.0 due to this distribution level (http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html), so I will stay with FrameLayout. – Bevor Nov 05 '12 at 19:31

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 05 '12 at 01:12

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Set the background to some color with a mid level alpha.

This one is black with an alpha of 180. The first 2 characters are the alpha in hexadecimal, the other 6 are rgb in hexadecimal.

android:background="#B4000000"

answered Nov 05 '12 at 01:12

KosherBacon

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