Android - Get the visible area of a view?

Question

Suppose I have an Android View that is being partially masked by another View. For instance, imagine that the masking view has a transparent recta

Answer 1

I have used getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame method to determine if view is partially visible or not to determine if a soft keyboard is open. You can try it out.

Rect r = new Rect();
// r will be populated with the coordinates of     your view
// that area still visible.
rootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

Answer 2

Does this not work: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#getDrawingRect(android.graphics.Rect)

The documentation says that it does what you want.

Answer 3

This is pretty late to the game, but I suspect that getGlobalVisibleRect does what you want.