[android-developers] Re: Best solution for touchable Toast-like notification for plugin library

2014-01-26 Thread Ubuntu guy
Have you considered http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW that facebook uses for its chat heads. But this needs explicit user permission during apk installation. Not sure how that works for 3rd party libraries. On Thursday, January 23,

[android-developers] Re: Best solution for touchable Toast-like notification for plugin library

2014-01-23 Thread Jose_GD
Why not use the standard Android notification system? Regarding plugins, I found useful this talk from Mark Murphy, since I'm working too in a plugin architecture for one of my apps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu8Z_3TaWuE Hope this helps Cheers, José

[android-developers] Re: Best solution for touchable Toast-like notification for plugin library

2014-01-23 Thread Glenn Powell
I don't think Notifications will work, since our popups need to show up inside the publisher's app that has integrated our plugin. I believe Notifications are only supposed to be used outside of apps, and I'm not sure if they react to touches like we will need. As for plugin frameworks, we do