Question

Is it possible to have a watermark background for a listview control in Android? Basically I want a stationary background image with a listview on top of the image. When I scroll, I want the listview to scroll like normal, but the image stay stationary. Since there doesn’t seem to be any z-order in Android, I’m wondering if this is possible.

Answer 1

Have you tried ListView.setBackgroundResource(int resId)?

Or for the whole screen use…

getWindow().getDecorView().setBackgroundResource(int resId)

You’ll need to use setCacheColorHint(0) to prevent ‘blackouts’ when scrolling the list though.