making the KeyboardView transparent

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I am making my own InputMethodService.Everything is working fine.But I have one issue.I want to make the KeyBoard view transparent.That means the keypad view will cover the enter screen & the user can see the whole screen while typing. I tried a lot to make it TRANSPARENT by setting BACKGROUND COLOR,DRAWABLE,but could not success. Please suggest me how to make a custom TRANSPARENT Keypad. Does using the method setTheme (int theme) work?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '16 at 18:11

In my configuration setting android:background="@android:color/transparent" as a property of android.inputmethodservice.KeyboardView and using slighltly transparent custom key drawable selector i.e. android:keyBackground="@drawable/custom_transparent_key" works just fine.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 05 '18 at 11:27

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In your KeyboardView XML file put

android:alpha="0.5"

Or in your OnCreateInputView set

keyboardView.setAlpha((float) 0.5);

Reference : How to make a background 20% transparent on Android

edited Aug 05 '18 at 11:27

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making the KeyboardView transparent

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