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

Here is how I got this to work:

1) Request for actionbar overlay programmatically by calling

       getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY);

this 'requestFeature()' must be requested from your activity 'onCreate()' method before calling for 'setContentView(R.layout.my_layout)':

2) set the actionbar color by calling setBackgroundDrawable() like so:

getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#00212121")) );

this method requires either a reference to a drawable or you can also use a color parser to parse a hex color value (first 2 digits are used for alpha channel starting at #00 to #FF)

Note that I am using actionBarSherlok getSupportActionBar() but this should work with any action bar.

If you still cant get this to work, try adding this to your theme style

true
 @style/ActionBar.Transparent.Example
 true