How to make button non transparent?

android styles transparency z-order

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Solution 1

The standard Holo themed button is partially transparent. You can either create a new button 9.png image to use in the button or create a new button by using drawable.

Here's a link on how to do the latter:

http://droidapp.co.uk/?p=309

Solution 2

Set the background to @android:drawable/btn_default to get rid of the transparency of holo theme

Solution 3

you can put the button in seperate Frame Layout so that your view wont affect the button and thats my idea

Solution 4

I was with the same problem but with ToggleButton. A ugly but fast solution was to position a ImageView right behind the button and change its margins, background and alpha to fit the button. For example, inside a RelativeLayout:

<ImageView
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/toggleButton"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/toggleButton"
    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/toggleButton"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/toggleButton"
    style="@style/HackBackgroundToggleButton" />

<ToggleButton
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/toggleButton"
    ... />

And, in an effort to reduce the visible hack, the extracted style:

<style name="HackBackgroundToggleButton">
    <item name="android:layout_width">84dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_height">42dp</item>
    <item name="android:background">#FFFFFF</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginTop">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginRight">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginBottom">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:alpha">0.75</item>
</style>

Solution 5

save below code as xml in drawable folder and give this xml as button background

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <stroke android:width="0dp" android:color="#ffffff" />
    <solid android:color="#000000"/>
    <corners android:radius="1px"/>
    <padding android:left="5dp" android:top="3dp" android:right="5dp" android:bottom="3dp" /> 
</shape>

Ex:

android:background="@drawable/<< your file name>>"

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Suzan Cioc

Not to be offended

Updated on June 04, 2022

Comments

Suzan Cioc almost 2 years

I wrote custom View which draws a circle. Then I put it on relative layout. Also I put standard button there, so that they overlap. And I see that button is transparent. How to make it non transparent?
Suzan Cioc almost 12 years

What is the simplest way? Can't I just style button as not transparent?
Tony almost 12 years

The second option is quite straight forward. You can just change the background of the button to a solid color (ie #999999) but that would not look good and wouldn't give the button a pressed state causing bad user experience.
Timmmm over 11 years

This also changes the graphic to the device default (i.e. not holo).
IgorGanapolsky over 10 years

Perfect answer. Thanks.
Bronek over 10 years

It's the perfect answer! Do you know how to apply it to another controls? (especially to EditText)
Bronek over 10 years

All right, I've found the answer to my question by myself, it is: @android:drawable/edit_text
Floris about 10 years

This is excellent, but when you say "Then I ran this...", where do you run that code from?