new Color(int) ignores the upper 8 bits - it creates a color without an alpha channel. In order to pass in rgba we have to use a different constructor, new Color(int,true). (In the layout library API we should also specify that the custom color, if specified, needs to include an alpha, or in particular add in 0xFF<<24 if the color is opaque.) Change-Id: I1c44caed8a5780e61b1c799f3b45bef3eb7bc97b
Layoutlib is a custom version of the android View framework designed to run inside Eclipse. The goal of the library is to provide layout rendering in Eclipse that are very very close to their rendering on devices. None of the com.android.* or android.* classes in layoutlib run on devices.