On Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:28:08 PM UTC-8, dashman wrote: > > i'd like to display an layout that overlays my app. > > this layout will display a hint - e.g. tap this to get started etc. > > i would like this layout to be on top of the action bar also - so > that users can't click on it or menus until the overlay layout > is tapped on (and dismissed). > > possible? > > maybe I don't understand what you want but what I would do is make my main layout ( e.g. main.xml ) a FrameLayout, then within it define two relative layouts, one is your app layout and the other is your overlay. Set the background colour of your overlay layout to #00000000 to make it transparent and your setZOrder to bring it to the front so that it gets the click events. To 'dismiss' it, setVisibility( View.GONE );
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