Changing background colour without increasing GPU overdraw - Android

Changing background colour without increasing GPU overdraw - Android

I know about using android:background to change the background colour but
that adds another layer that the GPU has to draw to the app. I was
wondering whether there is a way to change something to set the background
for the style without adding another layer of GPU overdraw. Perhaps it
could be done with a style of some sort but what I have tried with styles
only seems to redraw over the top of the normal light theme background.