Custom Translucent Android ActionBar

Question

I\'ve been scouring the interwebs (e.g. Android documentation, answers here, etc.) for the answer to what I thought would be a fairly trivial question. How do you achieve a

Answer 1

The above code is absolutely correct for making an action bar.

Instead of

getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.argb(128, 0, 0, 0)))

use

getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));

In this way, you will able to see the action bar fully transparent.