Opacity on a background Drawable image in View (using XML Layout)

Question

I was just wondering if there was a way to change the opacity of the background image for a View (ie. TextView, etc.).

I know that I can se

Answer 1

You can embed the image in xml, so you'll be able to see it in the Graphical Layout

And change the code like this to make it transparent:

Drawable loginActivityBackground = findViewById(R.id.login_layout).getBackground();
loginActivityBackground.setAlpha(127);