How to make MapView object transparent (alpha)?

Question

All,

I have a need to display information on a MapView object. No problems there.

The issue is that there are times when the MapView object displays map det

Answer 1

Are you sure you want to do this? It might be better to revisit your overlay's graphic design... simply giving them a thicker border might be a cheap solution to the problem.

First suggestion would be to subclass MapView and override dispatchDraw() with something like this:

@Override protected void dispatchDraw(Canvas canvas) {

  // Firstly let MapView draw
  super.dispatchDraw(canvas);

  // Draw a translucent fill on top of it
  canvas.drawColor(0x7FFFFFFF);

  // TODO: Draw my overlay
}