RealtimeBlurView

It's just a realtime blurring overlay like iOS UIVisualEffectView.

Just put the view in the layout xml, no Java code is required.

// Views to be blurred
<ImageView ../>

<com.github.mmin18.widget.RealtimeBlurView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    app:realtimeBlurRadius="20dp"
    app:realtimeOverlayColor="#8000" />

// Views above blurring overlay
<Button ../>

Try the sample apk: blurring.apk

Adding to project

Add dependencies in your build.gradle:

    dependencies {
        compile 'com.github.mmin18:realtimeblurview:1.0.3'
    }
    android {
        buildToolsVersion '23.0.3'                 // Use 23.0.3 or higher
        defaultConfig {
            minSdkVersion 15
            renderscriptTargetApi 19
            renderscriptSupportModeEnabled true    // Enable RS support
        }
    }

Performance

RealtimeBlurView use RenderScript to blur the bitmap, just like 500px-android-blur.

Everytime your window draw, it will render a blurred bitmap, so there is a performance cost. Set downsampleFactor>=4 will significantly reduce the render cost. However, if you just want to blur a static view, 500px-android-blur is good enough.

I've run the sample on some old phones like Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S3, it runs at full FPS. Here is a performance chart while scrolling the list on Nexus 5.