How to set AutoCompleteTextView drop down background to transparent in Android?

Question

As the subject suggests , how to set the transparent background to AutoCompleteTextView dropdown. I can apply any style to the view(TextView) that dropdown box shows but to make the drop down itself transparent I am not able to do !

Any hints or solution ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks , got what I was looking for , I can change background image of dropdown using setDropDownBackgroundResource(); and set semi-transparent png.

Answer 2

You have two options:

XML Attribute:

android:popupBackground

The background to use for the popup window. May be a color value, in the form of "#rgb", "#argb", "#rrggbb", or "#aarrggbb".

Java Attribute

setDropDownBackgroundResource

Sets the background of the auto-complete drop-down list.