Android: making a toolbar/actionbar invisible (transparent) but still functional

Question

How do I make the actionbar fully invisible but still functional. I should only see the icons I have and the title but the colour should be removed.

I tried like below:

toolbar.getBackground().setAlpha(0)

In my onCreate, but that just makes it white.

The XML code in my activity which sets the toolbar colour is here:

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

Possible duplicate of [Transparent Actionbar: custom tabcolor](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13726214/transparent-actionbar-custom-tabcolor) — Marcos Vasconcelos, Dec 15 '17 at 12:44

Leonid Veremchuk · Answer 1 · 2017-12-15T13:24:01.397

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You can set setBackgroundDrawable to transparent color

Same issue discussed here

edited Dec 15 '17 at 13:24

answered Dec 15 '17 at 12:32

Leonid Veremchuk

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Mines a toolbar, the answer there doesn't help me. Any other recommendations ? – JamMan9 Dec 15 '17 at 12:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 15 '17 at 12:55

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ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();

actionBar.setStackedBackgroundDrawable(newColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#550000ff")));

edited Dec 15 '17 at 12:55

AskNilesh

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answered Dec 15 '17 at 12:43

Shradheya Thakre

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Android: making a toolbar/actionbar invisible (transparent) but still functional

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