Android: Way around View.setAlpha?

Question

So I am trying to adjust the alpha of a view programmatically. As of API 11 there is View.setAlpha(alpha) which works great. My app otherwise supports back to API 4 so is there another way to set the alpha for a view?

Answer 1

Apply an AlphaAnimation to the view.

Answer 2

Try View.setBackgroundColor with a color that includes transparency as the first set of hex values before the RGB values (for fully visible red that would be #FFFF0000 - FF for alpha and FF0000 for RGB).

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