Custom Translucent Android ActionBar

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If you want your activity to be fullscreen but still show an actionbar, but with an alpha you have to request overlaymode for the actionbar in onCreate() of your activity:

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY);

//getWindow().requestFeature(WindowCompat.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY); << Use this for API 7+ (v7 support library)

Then after you call setContentView(..) (since setContentView(..) also initializes the actionbar next to setting the content) you can set a background drawable on your actionbar:

getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.actionbar_bg));

which can be a shape drawable with an alpha put in res/drawable:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle"> 
    <solid android:color="#BB000000" /> 
</shape>

You could also do this completely programatically by creating a ColorDrawable:

getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.argb(128, 0, 0, 0)));

Otherwise ofcourse you can hide the actionbar completely; in that case you can set a custom theme on your activity in your manifest:

@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen

or programmatically by calling 

getActionBar().hide();

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