set transparent background of an imageview in android

Question

hello...

i am using a web view in which i am adding a image view..now i want to set the background of this image view transparent.i hv tried setting

mImageview.setBackgroundResource(R.color.trans); [where trans => < color name="trans">#00000000 < / color >]

plz help.... thanks in advance...

Answer 1

There is already a transparent built into Android: R.color.transparent. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.color.html#transparent

But I think what you may be wanting to do is make the background of the image that you are placing into the WebView transparent, for example with a transparent PNG, rather than the ImageView background. If the actual image is not at all see-through then the ImageView background can't be seen through it.