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Asked: 2026-06-12T12:37:55+00:00

I’m just starting out in Android and was making a splash screen. I tried

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I’m just starting out in Android and was making a splash screen. I tried to change the default background colour to grey, but apparently I can’t use the same attribute twice. How can I add a background image and change the background colour? Thanks. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:background="@drawable/reddit_alien" 
    android:background="@color/grey"
    >
</LinearLayout>
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  1. Editorial Team

    One way to do this, which would be to use 2 layouts.. The outer one having a background of the color and the inner one having the image as the background.

    Alternatively you could use a layer list drawable resource file in xml which defines one layer as being the background color and another as the background image. see here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#LayerList

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