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

I added android:background="#c0000000" to LinearLayout. Now background is transparent as I wanted to, but also TextViews inside RelativeLayout are also transparent.. how to change it?

Add a solid background to your RelativeLayout element. This way the RelativeLayout will have a solid background, and only the margins will be transparent.