Fragment is transparent and shows Activity below

Question

My Android application launches into BeginActivity which is a subclass of SherlockFragmentActivity and shows it\'s first view using:

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Answer 1

Nobody mentioned that if you added a background to your Fragment but you are still getting a transparent background, you need to check that your FrameLayout is the last view in your XML.

Because z-index in Android is calculated by XML position and lowest view in the hierarchy have the highest z-index.

For example I fixed this problem recently simply moving the FrameLayout from here:

to here: