Android MapView With Sliding Menu Obscures Menu

Question

I have a map view for android maps api v2 in an activity that uses this sliding menu https://github.com/iPaulPro/SlidingMenu. The sliding menu works great except for on the map page. There is a black view covering the sliding menu that is the exact size of the map. This is an example with the map height set at 100dp to outline what I mean.

If I touch that view it will go away. How would I get rid of it or make it transparent? I've tried the requestTransparentRegion() trick. No dice there.

Answer 1

Found this stack overflow post ViewPager with Google Maps API v2: mysterious black view and used this class in place of the normal map fragment.

package com.myapp.gms.maps;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams;
import android.widget.FrameLayout;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment;

/**
 * @author btate
 */
public class TransparentSupportMapFragment extends SupportMapFragment {

    public TransparentSupportMapFragment() {}

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, 
                                 ViewGroup view, 
                                 Bundle savedInstance) {

        View layout = super.onCreateView(inflater, view, savedInstance);
        FrameLayout frameLayout = new FrameLayout(getActivity());
        frameLayout.setBackgroundColor(
           getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent));
        ((ViewGroup) layout).addView(frameLayout,
            new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(
               LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 
               LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT
            )
        );
        return layout;
    }

}