You need to set the theme in the manifest. The code sample is missing the @ in front of android. There are various examples in ApiDemos of dialog and translucent themed activities.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Karthik P <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
