title: How to get a semi transparent image on top of another image to hold text in android (screenshot provided)
body: <p>I have an image using an image view, towards the bottom of the image I want a semi transparent view (black in color) which will hold some text view in it. Something like this</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CDUyB.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I have got the text over the image, but now I am stuck on getting the black background sort of view. I tried </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;TextView 
   android:background="@color/lightGrey"
   android:text="Swiss Chalet - Play for a chance to win free app!"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>however it only gives a grey background to the text.
  Anyone knows how can I achieve this?</p>