Show ImageView partly behind transparent ActionBar

Question

The Google Maps application has a transparent ActionBar, through which the map is visible.

Answer 1

If someone needs the transparent bar but only for certain activities while using a solid one in the rest of them, it might be worth creating two different styles and using the manifest to get control over it:

and then in your AndroidManifest.xml you can either use one of them as default and the other one for some specific activities by doing something like:

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