Android WebView style background-color:transparent ignored on android 2.2

This worked for me,

mWebView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

At the bottom of this earlier mentioned issue there is an solution. It's a combination of 2 solutions.

webView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
webView.setLayerType(WebView.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);

When adding this code to the WebViewer after loading the url, it works (API 11+).

It even works when hardeware acceleration is ON


I had the same issue with 2.2 and also in 2.3. I solved the problem by giving the alpa value in html not in android. I tried many things and what I found out is setBackgroundColor(); color doesnt work with alpha value. webView.setBackgroundColor(Color.argb(128, 0, 0, 0)); will not work.

so here is my solution, worked for me.

      String webData = StringHelper.addSlashes("<!DOCTYPE html><head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" " +
      "content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\"> </head><body><div style=\"background-color: rgba(10,10,10,0.5); " +
      "padding: 20px; height: 260px; border-radius: 8px;\"> $$$ Content Goes Here ! $$$ </div> </body></html>");

And in Java,

    webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
    webView.setBackgroundColor(0);
    webView.loadData(webData, "text/html", "UTF-8");

And here is the Output screenshot below.enter image description here

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Android

Transparency

Background

Transparent

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