Make Title Bar Transparent, Transparent ActionBar - Sample Design Included - Is it possible to have such a material design page

Question

I am looking to develop a profile screen for my app. I am using AppCompactActivity as I need my app to support in non-lollipop devices as well. I need to make the title bar transparent only for this particular activity screen in the app.I also want the actionbar to be transparent.

Picture - Material Design Sample Profile Page with Transparent Title and Action Bar

Please see the sample picture above that I got my MaterialDesign site and it will be great someone can get me the code for developing a page like this. Really appreciate the help.

Answer 1

If you are using AppCompatActivity then you can directly do the following in your main/parent activity.

int FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY : Flag for requesting an Action Bar that overlays window content.

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    supportRequestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY);
    setContentView(yourview)
}

And make sure you do not set any background for the action bar.
Using supportRequestWindowFeature is a convenience for calling getWindow().requestFeature().