Snackbar in a transparent activity

Question

Was trying to make a snackbar in a transparent Activity and got errors, changed the theme in Manifest to android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat" now it works fine... Doesn't look good though. Is there a way to make the avtivity transparent and make the snackbar work?

Thanks in advance!

It seems to me a snackbar in a transparent activity ought to be a notification with no activity.... — Nick Cardoso, Jan 08 '16 at 12:27
@DrilonBlakqori http://imgur.com/14ykgy7 if this is what you're asking for. — Dunoo, Jan 08 '16 at 12:32
so is your problem to you snackbar looking bad or activity being not transparent? — Drilon Blakqori, Jan 08 '16 at 12:42
@DrilonBlakqori Activity not being transparent. When I set the theme to transparent, it crashes. — Dunoo, Jan 08 '16 at 12:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '16 at 12:44

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Go to your activity xml file and set the background to transparent

android:background="@android:color/transparent"

answered Jan 08 '16 at 12:44

Drilon Blakqori

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

This just change your Theme to Theme.AppCompat and it looks darker.

Refer that android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat" to this in your Manifest:

android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

So, do your stuffs in values -> Styles.xml.

Here is the Styles after that changes, you can customize that activity here too:

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->

    </style>

</resources>

And about that Transparent, like i said you should use something like these stuffs:

in your Layout:

android:background="@android:color/transparent"

or:

How to create Transparent Activity in Android?

Awesome man ! Did the trick ^^ – Dunoo Jan 08 '16 at 13:02 — Dunoo, Jan 08 '16 at 13:02

Snackbar in a transparent activity

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