Sometimes you may need to make a TextView (label) look a little transparent to make emphasis on other parts of your UI. The .setAlpha() function on TextView is not supported after later in the SDK. Here’s a static workaround you can place on some sort of UIUtils class you may have in your project.
/** * Android devices with SDK below target=11 do not support textView.setAlpha(). * This is a work around. * @param v - the text view * @param alpha - a value from 0 to 255. (0=transparent, 255=fully visible) */ public static void setTextViewAlpha(TextView v, int alpha) { v.setTextColor(v.getTextColors().withAlpha(alpha)); v.setHintTextColor(v.getHintTextColors().withAlpha(alpha)); v.setLinkTextColor(v.getLinkTextColors().withAlpha(alpha)); Drawable[] compoundDrawables = v.getCompoundDrawables(); for (int i=0 ; iEnjoy, and above all
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