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Removing the window's background can be achieved very easily by using a custom theme. To do so, first create a file called res/values/theme.xml containing the following:

<resources>    <style name="Theme.NoBackground" parent="android:Theme">        <item name="android:windowBackground">@null</item>    </style></resources>

You then need to apply the theme to your activity by adding the attribute android:theme="@style/Theme.NoBackground" to your <activity /> or <application /> tag. This trick comes in very handy for any app that uses a MapView, a WebView or any other full screen opaque view.

<!-- Variation on the Light theme that turns off the title --><style name="Theme.IOSched" parent="android:style/Theme.Light">    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>    <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item></style>

The android:windowContentOverlay is your shadow, and setting it to @null in your theme will eliminate it. You can see this in action in the Google I|O 2010 conference app, which uses many of the same UI conventions as does the new Twitter app. However, right now, the Twitter app has not yet been open-sourced, which is why I point you to the I|O app. The code fragment above is from that app's styles.xml resource.