Thanks for the quick response.
I created a Object/res/values/styles.xml file and pasted in the example from Stackoverflow, modified the project manifest to use the @style/Theme.Transparent (both as a Activity and Application Attribute), which has an effect on the application, it now displays one large white box instead of the controls that the application is supposed to display. First time with a custom style, not sure if there is more to it than what I have done.
Still I can tell on the border, that the background behind this area is the home screen, not the game I am trying to display in the background of my translucent application. It seems that when the notification is activated, that the screen stack navigates from the game, to the home screen, then the translucent application is rendered (showing the home screen behind my app).
Is there a way for my application to reverse the screen stack so that before the translucent app renders, the screen before the home screen is rendered, to achieve this goal?
Again, thank you.
Gentry