Android Transparent TextView

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Simply  how to make a TextView transparent   Not full transparency   I searched the docs and the StackNetwork and couldn t find it  I guess there is something like this   Thanks   UPDATE  This is the XML code    lt LinearLayout     xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent      android gravity  center horizontal      android orientation  vertical      android background   drawable background  gt        lt ImageView      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android id    id header      android src   drawable logo1        gt       lt ListView android id   android id list      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent      android layout weight  1      android paddingRight  5dp      android scrollbarStyle  outsideOverlay      android cacheColorHint   00000000    gt         lt TextView     android id    id footer      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android textSize  25sp      android singleLine  true      android background   07000000      android textColor   FFFFFF      android text  rrrrr    gt     lt  LinearLayout gt    I want the footer TextView to be transparent so that the ListView items can be seen while scrolling

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In case someone wants to do this in the programming way! Do the following: Update the color file in your values folder with this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="transparent">#00ffffff</color> <!--This is the transparency line-->
</resources>

then call the transparency programitically

your_textview.setBackgroundResource(R.color.transparent);

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Use this   android background   android color transparent

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Try setting android background   00000000  in TextView  Setting alpha of colour 00 will make the background transparent    I haven t tried this  but it should work

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Below code for black -   lt color name  black  gt  000000 lt  color gt    Now if i want to use opacity than you can use below code  -       lt color name  black  gt  99000000 lt  color gt     and below for opacity code -  Hex Opacity Values  100      FF 95      F2 90      E6 85      D9 80      CC 75      BF 70      B3 65      A6 60      99 55      8C 50      80 45      73 40      66 35      59 30      4D 25      40 20      33 15      26 10      1A 5      0D 0      00   refer Understanding colors on Android  six characters

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If you are looking for something like the text view on the image on the pulse app do this   android background   88000000  android textColor   ffffff

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Everyone is answering correctly about the transparency but not listening to what the guy needs in regards to the list scrolling behind the footer   You need to make the footer part of your ListView  At the moment the list won t scroll behind because the layout of the ListView does not go behind the footer view with the transparency  Make a RelativeLayout and position the transparency at the bottom

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Although this answer is very late but might help other developer so I m posting it here    Answers above showing only how to set transparent background of TextView  We can achieve transparent Textview backcgorund in two way    By setting opacity code such as  88000000 in android background attribute By setting android alpha  0 5  attribute to TextView   Second approach is better because it gives flexibility to set background with different color and then setting setting opacity to widget using android alpha  0 2   Example   lt TextView         android id    id tv name          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  match parent          android background   color black          android alpha  0 3          android textColor   color white          android textStyle  bold   gt

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To set programmatically   setBackgroundColor Color TRANSPARENT     For me  I also had to set it to Color TRANSPARENT on the parent layout

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See the Android Color resource documentation for reference   Basically you have the option to set the transparency  opacity  and the color either directly in the layout or using resources references   The hex value that you set it to is composed of 3 to 4 parts    Alpha  opacity   i ll refer to that as aa Red  i ll refer to it as rr Green  i ll refer to it as gg Blue  i ll refer to it as bb   Without an alpha  transparency  value    android background   rrggbb    or as resource    lt color name  my color  gt  rrggbb lt  color gt    With an alpha  transparency  value    android background   aarrggbb    or as resource    lt color name  my color  gt  aarrggbb lt  color gt    The alpha value for full transparency is 00 and the alpha value for no transparency is FF    See full range of hex values below   100      FF  95      F2  90      E6  85      D9  80      CC  75      BF  70      B3  65      A6  60      99  55      8C  50      80  45      73  40      66  35      59  30      4D  25      40  20      33  15      26  10      1A   5      0D   0      00   You can experiment with values in between those

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Please try this piece of code     lt TextView     android id    id txtview1     android layout width  wrap content      android background   drawable bg task      android layout height  wrap content      android textSize  14sp      android singleLine  true     android textColor   FFFFFF    gt    Used background image as transparent so may be solved that   OR  android background   07000000    OR  Please try below       lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  fill parent  android layout height  fill parent      android gravity  center horizontal  android orientation  vertical      android background   drawable main bg  gt       lt ImageView android layout width  fill parent          android layout height  wrap content  android id    id header          android src   drawable btn complete    gt       lt RelativeLayout android layout width  fill parent          android layout height  fill parent  gt           lt ListView android id    id list  android layout width  fill parent              android layout height  fill parent  android layout weight  1              android paddingRight  5dp  android scrollbarStyle  outsideOverlay              android cacheColorHint   00000000    gt           lt TextView android id    id footer  android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content  android textSize  25sp              android singleLine  true  android background   07000000              android textColor   FFFFFF  android text  rrrrr              android layout centerInParent  true              android layout alignParentBottom  true    gt       lt  RelativeLayout gt   lt  LinearLayout gt

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lt TextView android alpha  0 3       for example

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try to set the transparency with the android-studio designer in activity main xml  If you want it to be transparent  write it for example like this for white  White   FFFFFF  with 50  transparency   80FFFFFF This is for Kotlin tho  not sure if that will work the same way for basic android  java

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setBackgroundColor Color TRANSPARENT    The simplest way

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Hi Please try with the below color code as textview s background   android background   20535252

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