Fading a background on a view to have a timer start
<p>So far in my app I have a ImageView next to a Start button.  When the start button is pressed the ImageView is replaced by a TextView to start a countdown.  Ideally what I am trying to accomplish now is having the Image next to the start button and when the Start button is pressed the background of that image fades just a little bit and a countdown starts in the middle of that image which is not faded.</p>

<p>The only thing I can think of at the moment is to have a TextView and have the image as the background but then my question now is how to fade that background.  Would this be an ideal/correct way of doing this?  If so how would I go about fading the background?  If there is another way of doing this how would I go about doing so?</p>
