How to have a transparent ImageButton: Android

Answer 1

Programmatically it can be done by :

image_button.setAlpha(0f) // to make it full transparent
image_button.setAlpha(0.5f) // to make it half transparent
image_button.setAlpha(0.6f) // to make it (40%) transparent
image_button.setAlpha(1f) // to make it opaque