Overlay over an ImageView on Android

Question

So I have a list of images that come from the web, I don\'t know which color are they and I want to place a text over the ImageView.

My idea is to place the ImageView, a

Answer 1

When you write the XML for your list items which get inflated in the getView(...) of whatever ListAdapter you've written you can surely do this.

Something like this for the list item:

Then you create that drawable/gradient. For that you can recycle the answer from here.