title: Layers in Android Layout
body: <p>I have a screen with a background image and two buttons at the bottom. I am using code similar to this:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:orientation="vertical"&gt;
      &lt;LinearLayout android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="0dip" android:layout_weight="1"
          android:orientation="vertical" android:background="@drawable/mainbg"&gt;
  
      &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  
          &lt;ImageButton android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:background="#FF000000" android:src="@drawable/button1"
          android:padding="5dp"
          android:id="@+id/ImageButton1" android:layout_width="fill_parent"&gt;
      &lt;/ImageButton&gt;
  
      &lt;ImageButton android:src="@drawable/button2" android:background="#FF000000" android:id="@+id/ImageButton2"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:focusable="true" android:saveEnabled="false" android:layout_height="wrap_content"&gt;
      &lt;/ImageButton&gt;
  
      &lt;TextView android:text="mywebsite.com" android:id="@+id/textView1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"&gt;&lt;/TextView&gt;
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In this code, the background screen is smashed up to fit in the remaining screen space not used by the bottons.  in other words, the two button consume 20% of screen space, then the image is smashed into the remaing 80%.</p>
  
  <p><strong>My Question:</strong>
  Is there a way to make some kind of layering effect so that my buttons are on a layer above the background image? </p>