Opacity on a background Drawable image in View (using XML Layout)

Question

I was just wondering if there was a way to change the opacity of the background image for a View (ie. TextView, etc.).

I know that I can se

Answer 1

I ended up just going with the programmatical solution, since it doesn't look like it can be done via the XML layouts.

Drawable rightArrow = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.green_arrow_right_small);

// setting the opacity (alpha)
rightArrow.setAlpha(10);

// setting the images on the ImageViews
rightImage.setImageDrawable(rightArrow);

Answer 2

The answer you gave didn't exactly answer the question you asked. Here's what I did.

    Drawable login_activity_top_background = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.login_activity_top_background);
    login_activity_top_background.setAlpha(127);
    LinearLayout login_activity_top = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.login_activity_top);
    login_activity_top.setBackgroundDrawable(login_activity_top_background);

Answer 3

You can also use XML to change the transparency:

android:alpha = "0.7"

The value of alpha ranges from 0 to 1

Answer 4

This might make your Work simpler

View backgroundimage = findViewById(R.id.background);
Drawable background = backgroundimage.getBackground();
background.setAlpha(80);

Alpha Values 0-255, 0 means fully transparent, and 255 means fully opaque

from: This Answer

Answer 5

You can embed the image in xml, so you'll be able to see it in the Graphical Layout

<LinearLayout
        style="@style/LoginFormContainer"
        android:id="@+id/login_layout"
        android:orientation="vertical" 
        android:background="@drawable/signuphead">

And change the code like this to make it transparent:

Drawable loginActivityBackground = findViewById(R.id.login_layout).getBackground();
loginActivityBackground.setAlpha(127);