Custom Translucent Android ActionBar

Question

I\'ve been scouring the interwebs (e.g. Android documentation, answers here, etc.) for the answer to what I thought would be a fairly trivial question. How do you achieve a

Answer 1

I think you should be able to do this using the Window flag FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY.

Before you call setContentView() in your activity,

Call:

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY);

And it will use an overlaid ActionBar instead of pushing down your window.