What I am trying to do is to have a menu appear over listView. Just like in okCupid app :
when you click menu below the picture :
https://ssl.gstatic.com/android/market/com.okcupid.okcupid/ss-480-3-11
it extends itself over the background view :
https://g1.gstatic.com/android/market/com.okcupid.okcupid/ss-480-4-11
I have a feeling that this particular app is done in Sencha or JQuery mobile or similar technology but is it possible to get same effect in native app?
thanks
Most layout classes ‘help you’ by avoiding widgets to overlaps, but with the RelativeLayout you have more flexibility to create overlapping views.
To be sure the overlay view is on top, you can call ViewGroup.bringChildViewToFront() on the relative layout.
In your example the top view also has a partially transparent background.