How to create transparent activity in android?

Question

How to create transparent activity in android in that screen tap to dismiss button automatically dismiss the activity. please provide any solution.

Laurenelaurens

So I get that you want to have transparent activity, but what do you want to accomplish on tapping issue? – Maris

gothrough #2177422 – Alaynaalayne

in manifest, in particular activity you want to be transparent, use android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent" – Tomtit

Why don't you use a transparent view instead of an activity? You can put a transparent view on your activity. – Gobert

Hi all this problem is solving implemntation is done , thank u very much for sharing information – Laurenelaurens

Possible duplicate of How to create Transparent Activity in Android? – Lathing

Answer 1

There are two ways to achieve this

• use the following theme for activity.

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent"

• Set background of the activity as a trans parent png image or a transparent code

eg.

android:background="@drawable/transparent_bg"

or

android:background="#33BBFFFF"

this is a semi transparent color

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• To dismiss activity on tap implement onTouchListener and when touch event is detected call finish();

Hope it helps !!

Pincenez

android:background="#33BBFFFF" did not give me a transparent background when applied to the RelativeActivity. It just gave me a white background. -1 – Roughage

Answer 2

Works better with noTitleBar to create a full transparent activity

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"

and remember extends your activity from Activity and not from AppCompactActivity

If you need to use AppCompact then declare a new theme:

<style name="Theme.AppCompat.Translucent" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
    <item name="android:colorBackgroundCacheHint">@null</item>
    <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@android:style/Animation</item>
</style>

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