How to make TextView's background to be transparent? - android

There is a tablelayout having four tablerows, the first tablerow contains a TextView :
As you can see the background of the TextView having the text "Vidy" is seen ! So how to make it transparent ? I tried to add android:alpha="0" to the attribute of the TextView but at runtime the text is not seen !

You can try:
android:background="#null"
Or:
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
Check also: Android Transparent TextView?

If you really need transparency, #Nermeen's answer is great, you can also get it done programmatically like:
myTextView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
but as long as you have solid background color below, it's better due to performance to make your TextView's background color the same as the layout below (with alpha, app needs to redraw more regions). It won't really matter for such a simple layout, but it's worth remembering when you have many of them using transparency.

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Softening a TextView edges

I need to add a scrollable android TextView, which will show alot of text.
I want to achieve this kind of effect:
But I found no way of doing so.
Is there any good way of doing it?
Thank you!
try below properties to TextView
android:requiresFadingEdge="vertical"
android:fadingEdgeLength="32dp" //To change the gradient overlay height
The most convient way of doing this is creating a drawable. You can either make your own image in the image editing software of your choice or create a GradientDrawable. Make sure the colors go from white to transparent. Then place this drawable on top of the textview near the bottom.

Card View background color affects shadow color

I have my Card View set up like this:
android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="6dp"
android:layout_marginRight="6dp"
card_view:cardCornerRadius="2dp"
card_view:cardElevation="6dp"
card_view:cardUseCompatPadding="true"
card_view:contentPadding="10p"
Without a background color my Card View looks perfect like this:
However, when I add the simple property:
card_view:cardBackgroundColor="#xxxxxxxx"
the shadows change significantly in terms of color, transparency, blur etc.
How might I go about fixing this? I tried using a RelativeLayout as the background and changing the color there, so it wouldn't affect the shadows... but that affected the rounded corners.
Any ideas? Thanks for the help!
I ran into the exact same problem and solved it by removing the alpha portion of my hex code.
Example: #AA333333 removing the AA. Of course use the hex color that you need without the alpha.
Your idea of RelativeLayout is a good one. Instead of placing the card view in RelativeLayout, add RelativeLayout as CardView child, and than add its content to RelativeLayout, in your case it look like you got single child: TextView.
So change your TextView background color or place it in a RelativeLayout and change RelativeLayout background color.
As a workaround, since the alpha is the problem, you can try to brigthen the card color (or blend it with the underlying color)
ColorUtils.blendARGB(yourCardColor, Color.WHITE, 0.2f)
Instead of that, set android:background="#hexColor"

MPAndroidChart - Set a background image [duplicate]

I'm using the amazing library MPAndroidChart. It works like a charm, except when I'm trying to change the background color of the BarData. Default color is white, and I want to change it to Transparent.
I've tried this :
Paint p1 = mChart.getPaint(Chart.PAINT_GRID_BACKGROUND);
p1.setColor(Color.RED);
and this:
<com.github.mikephil.charting.charts.BarChart
android:id="#+id/chart1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"/>
... but it seems that doesnt works.
Any ideas ?
Thanks =)
Since release v1.6.5, the background of the Chart is transparent by default. Meaning, that everything in the background (chart background, other Views, etc.) that is not overlayed by data drawn into the Chart, will be visible.
If you want to change the background (color, or maybe drawable), you can either do that by changing the chart-background
in .xml (android:background="...")
by calling setBackgroundColor(...) or setBackgroundResource(...)
Another way could be to change the background of the parent layout that contains the Chart.
Code to change Background color:
chart.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT); //set whatever color you prefer
chart.setDrawGridBackground(false);// this is a must
if you want to Change Whole Screen Background Color
Barchart chart;
chart.setBackgroundColor(Color.rgb(0, 0, 0));//Set as a black
chart.setDrawGridBackground(false);//set this to true to draw the grid background, false if not
Happy to help Thanks
So, after some research, I've found that it's not possible yet: https://github.com/PhilJay/MPAndroidChart/issues/53
Hope It will be possible soon ! =)

Change Android EditText background color

I am developing an Android app. There's this issue with the EditTexts, because in some devices the "background" is white (which is the way I want it), but on others is transparent, and makes the app less professional. Here's an image with the "white background":
On other devices the edit texts that say "Yo" and "Casa" are transparent, so the words mix with the map and its pretty awful. I have tried changing the background color in the android layout xml. The closest one was I believe #drawable/white, but slightly changes the position and size of the edit text, making them look like they're one and its even worst.
Here is an example:
Is there a nice way to approach this problem? I read somewhere that an option was to add a white background image to the edit texts, but seemed like a lot of trouble.
UPDATE
I tried adding a background image, but its the same as changing the background color to any color using the android:background, the edit texts get like smaller or something. I added a blue "delimiter" to the image and this is the result:
But I want them like in the first picture, not so close one to another.
This would be the code of the edittext layout XML, the other one looks very similar. Only by adding the android:background tag changes from picture 1, to picture 3
SOLUTION
To solve this what I did was set a background image and set its height in dp as follows:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/markerTitle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/buttonModifymarker"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textPersonName"
android:text="Título"
android:background="#drawable/editwhite"
>
Why don't you try setting the background of EditText programmatically?
yourEditText.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
or...
yourEditText.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffffff"));
simply you can add android:background="#drawable/white" attribute to your element in layout xml. you can use a lot of color resource between the double quotes (like from android color resources).
put the following image which has a solid white background in the drawable folder (it may dont appear because it's white and this page's background is white also) right click under this paragraph and select "Save Image as".
and refer to it in your layout and you will get a result like the following image
if the issue continue after trying this, please show me your layout code or email me at : mohamed_hamed4158#yahoo.com , thanks for voting my answer :)

TwoLineListItem - Custom attributes

How can I override the XML attributes of TwoLineListItem. I don't want to do it Java. I'm trying to make the backgrounds of the view and the textViews transparent, but it isn't working when I do it in Java.
setBackGroundDrawable
setBackGroundColor
setBackGroundResource
These don't seem to do what I need them to do. I've tried making no background. I've tried setting an alpha value of 0 to the color, but I still get the same old white list boxes. I have a drawable background that is behind the TwoLineListItem view, and thats all I want to show for the background, not the Item background.
According to my understanding of your question you are trying to make your TextView's background to trasparent. this is what i use to do this:
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textviewID);
tv.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
And I didn't get your point about TwoLineListItem. But if you want it to become single line, then write in xml properties of your TextView:
android:singleLine="true"
If this was not the question then please elaborate a bit.

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