Hi all. I'm new here, and have been learning Android dev for a couple of months; I now need to improve my graphical skills.

One of my common solutions for graphical layouts has, so far, been using a FrameLayout. For example, I'll have a background view, which may be an image, then another view on top which may have the moving parts to the game, like a rolling ball. The background of the top view will be set to Color.INVISIBLE so that you can see the other views, or frames, behind it.

However with OpenGL I'm not having such luck. I've looked at a few examples, but can't achieve the same thing. The background is always black (or blank) and I haven't successfully combined an OpenGl view with any others.

Can this be done, and if so, I would appreciate some pointers!

Thanks.

Hmm. Looking through this forum, I have seen about 5 posts asking pretty much the same question, none of which have an answer. I'll take it that it can't be done - but that seems unlikely to me.

If anyone does have any experience with this I really would appreciate some comments...

Is there any chance to draw a 50% transparent, 50% smaller (than screen) view with some controls/buttons, over a GLSurfaceView without creating a new activity? Someone mentioned it can be done with Dialogs?