I trying to add text with highlight color to ImageView, I doing some search and I found this answer and I applied it successfully, but I need to make background highlight of text with color black like this in image
the current XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/postImage"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="125dp"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="@mipmap/ic_launcher" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/postTitle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignStart="@id/postImage"
android:layout_alignEnd="@id/postImage"
android:layout_alignRight="@id/postImage"
android:layout_alignLeft="@id/postImage"
android:layout_alignTop="@+id/postImage"
android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/postImage"
android:layout_margin="1dp"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:gravity="center|bottom"
android:maxLines="2"
android:text="Hello"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="14sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
Simple way is : Add background color to text view and set alpha value based on transparency.
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/image"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="@drawable/my_image"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="lasdfjsdfjlsdkfj"
android:background="@android:color/black"
android:textColor="@android:color/white"
android:layout_alignBottom="@id/image"
android:layout_alignLeft="@id/image"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:layout_alignRight="@id/image"
android:alpha="0.5"/>
</RelativeLayout>