Activity with transparent background

Question

what I want to achieve is activity with dialog-like transparency with 100% visibility of RelativeLayout content. This is activity\'s xml:

Answer 1

Add the following style In your res/values/styles.xml file (if you don’t have one, create it.) Here’s a complete file:

(the value @color/transparent is the color value #00000000 which I put in res/values/color.xml file. Later versions of Android define a transparent color for you, so with those versions you can use @android:color/transparent directly in the style and skip the color.xml step (note the additional android: in the definition))

Then apply the style to your activity, for example:

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Taken from here.