Question

I placed a TextView on an ImageView in a FrameLayout. I’ve tried various combinations of android:background for the TextView but always get a see-through grey background on it. I’d like a transparent background. The android:background attribute seems to be ignored.

<HorizontalScrollView
    android:id="@+id/categories_horizontal_scrollview"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingBottom="25dip">
    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/categories_linear_layout"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent">
        <FrameLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <ImageView  
            android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
            android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
            android:id="@+id/photos_imageview"
            android:scaleType="center"
            android:src="@drawable/photos_ipad" />
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:id="@+id/photos_text"
            android:layout_marginBottom="10dip"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|bottom"
            android:padding="3dip" 
            android:background="#00000000"
            android:textColor="#ffffffff"
            android:textSize="20dip" 
            />
        </FrameLayout>
              .
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Answer 1

As Brayden pointed out, there was a problem in the layout. I ended up putting the ImageView and TextView into a FrameLayout as a single resource, then adding that dynamically where needed.