How to make Toolbar transparent and put an image backwards it?

Question

I want the ToolBar to be transparent. I have an Activity that is showing a Toolbar and looks like this:

I have this on my xml:

 <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:elevation="0dp"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent" />

</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

But I can't make my Activity be on top and be visible at the back of my ToolBar...

How can I achieve this?

All my activites extend from this Toolbar, so I don't think that's a solution... — Sonhja, Nov 25 '15 at 15:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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You can find you answer here:

How to make the support Toolbar background transparent?

How to make Toolbar transparent?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Nov 25 '15 at 15:31

Raza Ali Poonja

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wanted to do exactly the same thing. – RexSplode Nov 25 '15 at 15:39
So then my problem is that my Activity is moved down for some reason... Why it looks down?= – Sonhja Nov 25 '15 at 15:50

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 25 '15 at 15:39

@RAP's answer seems work. But note that if you set the background to transparent, means that the toolbar is still clickable when user touch on it and doing some actions you don't want. Other alternative to achieve your goal is by setting its visibility to INVISIBLE:

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

toolbar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

// to make it appear again:
toolbar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

How to make Toolbar transparent and put an image backwards it?

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