I saw the below portion in the documentation, "By setting the theme of an activity to android:theme="android:style/Theme.Dialog", your activity will take on the appearance of a normal dialog, floating on top of whatever was underneath it. You usually set the theme through the android:theme attribute in your Android Manifest.xml. The advantage of this over Dialg and AlertDialog is that Application has a much better managed."
I tried to follow this but it throwed up an error saying unable to parse AndroidManifest.xml. I guess you are saying in the similar lines to make it translucent. My AndroidManifest.xml looked like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; package="com.sample.window" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0"> <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"> <activity android:name=".window" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="android:style/Theme.Dialog"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" /> </manifest> then I tried thru the code using setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Dialog); Above piece of code has built successfully but still I couldnt see any floating app, the app was occupying full screen. The same experiment I did with Theme.Translucent as well. Any light on this? Karthik On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > There is no need to use SurfaceView for that, just make your own activity > transparent such as with Theme.Translucent. > Anyway, the UI model is designed around having one main fullscreen activity > visible to the user (any number of non-fullscreen or translucent activities > can be stacked on top of it). There is no way to have two running > side-by-side without significant deep cooperation between the two apps. > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Rud <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Just speculating but maybe using SurfaceView with a transparent >> region? The background app might show through the transparent area of >> the foreground app. >> >> Rud >> >> >> On Sep 21, 7:43 am, Karthik P <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it >> possible >> > for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other >> screen? >> > Any help in this regard will be of great help. >> > Karthik >> >> > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
