Transparent LinearLayout on Android

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alxsimo picture alxsimo · May 8, 2013 · Viewed 67k times · Source

I have the folowing layout:

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I want to make transparent the transparent_layout but i can't do it.

Already tried settings the background programmatically with the color: Color.TRANSPARENT but it seems it doesnt work.

Im using Android 2.3.3 SDK with SherlockActionBar.

Is there any way to set that layout to transparent?

Answer

Narendra Singh picture Narendra Singh · May 8, 2013

Depending upon the degree of opacity you like, set the background color like

        android:background="#00ffffff"

The first two digits are for opacity level, (aka alpha) that varies from 00 to ff (fully-transparent to fully-opaque), the remaining digits are for the desired background color. If you keep first 2 digits zero (00), then whatever color you choose for the remaining digits, doesn't matter.

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