Transparent blurry view which blurs layout underneath

Question

I\'ve got a Linearlayout which I\'ve made transparent, and now I\'m looking for a way to give it a Blur effect, so what\'s ever underneath it gets blurry. Just like the Wind

Answer 1

It is not possible to do it easily, using layout features.

I would suggest drawing parent view to canvas as described here: How to make any view to draw to canvas? with the foreground view hidden. Then, blur the canvas and draw the foreground view using this data as a background, or a part of it.

It will be very resource intensive operation if you want this effect to be live. You should at least try caching the blur result.