Show ImageView partly behind transparent ActionBar

android actionbarsherlock
nhaarman picture nhaarman · Nov 14, 2012 · Viewed 18.2k times · Source

The Google Maps application has a transparent ActionBar, through which the map is visible.

enter image description here

I am able to set the transparency of the ActionBar using this:

<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="ActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#64000000</item>
</style>

But how can I show my ImageView behind the ActionBar?

Answer

Tomik picture Tomik · Nov 14, 2012

You can enable overlay mode of the ActionBar. To do it you have to set (android:)windowActionBarOverlay item in the theme to true. 

<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
    ...
    <item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item> <!-- for ActionBarSherlock -->
    <item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
</style>

Related questions

Fragment MyFragment not attached to Activity

I've created a small test app which represents my problem. I'm using ActionBarSherlock to implement tabs with (Sherlock)Fragments. My code: TestActivity.java public class TestActivity extends SherlockFragmentActivity { private ActionBar actionBar; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); …

Read More
Android Viewpager as Image Slide Gallery

I am using Jake's ViewPageIndicator and want to display Images like a swipe gallery. Any refernce link where i can get started. I have implemented the basic viewpager and now want to implement image viewpaper as below Is it possible …

Read More
Remove shadow below actionbar

I use actionbarsherlock. The piece of code below is responsible for changing it's background to a custom one. <style name="Widget.Styled.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar"> <item name="background">@drawable/actionbar_bg</item> &…

Read More