Android: set background color for the entire screen dynamically, or how to set actionbar to overlay layout, but not overlap content?

Your ActionBar will now sit over the background view, instead of above it. It will be transparent, so as to allow the background to show through, and it will not be covered up by the ActionBar.

Here's what I ended up doing, thanks to @Sky for the help.

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