I use: android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"
in combination with: getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_BLUR_BEHIND, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_BLUR_BEHIND);
to get a nice transparent background blur effect, emulates a dialogue style.
This works great on 2.3 and below, but it's solid color (read opaque) on devices running ICS / 3.0 and above. I know that they introduced a holographic theme, and there seems to be no specific theme for Theme.Holo.Translucent. Any ideas on how to get a translucent background on ICS and older, I am not opposed to using individual topics defined in values-v11.
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