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

I'd use a FrameLayout or RelativeLayout. The first View you add to either should be the background ImageView, then obviously you'll need some TextViews and Other ImageViews [or Buttons, or ImageButtons, etc]

Seems like a reasonable layout: a background image, and then one additional view in each corner.

For the gradient, you'll probably want a separate Layout/View at the bottom with a gradient drawable as the background, although I can imagine you might be able to get away with setting the background of one of your TextViews as the gradient.