You should be able to just set the color directly as
android:background="#00000000".  But @null is the most efficient.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Streets Of Boston
<flyingdutc...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Set the background-color to a transparent color (i.e. its alpha-
> component is 0).
>
> I'm not sure about the syntax, it may be totally incorrect, but you'll
> get the idea :-) :
> in colors.xml
> <color name="transparent">#00000000</color>
>
> and in your layout-xml, set the background to transparent:
> android:background="@color/transparet"
>
>
> On Aug 19, 4:49 pm, phil <phil.pellouch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i want to be able to specify an android:src, but I want
> > android:background="" - complaints that string types are not allowed
> > when compiling.
> >
> > I basically want a button without any background (but that *does* have
> > a 'src').
> >
>


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