change soft keys background from black to transparent in android app

android listview background transparent softkeys
Anees U picture Anees U · Sep 5, 2015 · Viewed 8k times · Source

I want to change the soft keys(Not sure about name of these buttons all together) background from black to transparent in my app so that users will get a complete visibility of items in listview in my app. I found this feature in Google photos android app. Please that app screenshot here.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_J3bZG-H80ojW-bIz5wPfneLV8s83XViANUZ9Fdh2-qWIsrgX83FbttNb44_cHxj1w=h900-rw

Please some one could help me find a reference document or code to achieve this functionality. Thanks in advance.

Answer

dzikovskyy picture dzikovskyy · Jun 10, 2016

Soft keys all together are called Navigation Bar.

To make it transparent add this line to your activity style (for API 19 and above):

<item name="android:windowTranslucentNavigation">true</item>

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