title: To have a transluscent background for an android activity?
body: <p>I wish to have a transluscent background for an activity, so that the previous activity can be seen beneath this activity. Something like a transluscent menu that pops up over a videa being played in the background.</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible? Can you tell me how?</p>
  
  <p>Note:I cannot use the default transluscent theme from android, since I am using my own customised background and theme for my application.</p>
  
  <p>Pls help. Below is my style.xml wherein my_btn and my_list are selectors : </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;resources&gt; 
      &lt;style name="btnstyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Button"&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#FFFFFF&lt;/item&gt; 
          &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/my_btn&lt;/item&gt;         
      &lt;/style&gt;    
      &lt;style name="liststyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.ListView"&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:listSelector"&gt;@drawable/my_list&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt; 
      &lt;style name="theme" parent="android:Theme.Translucent"&gt; 
          &lt;item name="android:windowBackground"&gt;@drawable/background&lt;/item&gt;   
          &lt;item name="android:windowIsTranslucent"&gt;true&lt;/item&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:buttonStyle"&gt;@style/btnstyle&lt;/item&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:listViewStyle"&gt;@style/liststyle&lt;/item&gt;  
      &lt;/style&gt;
      &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>