I tried that too... I get the following error.
[2009-09-22 12:56:19 - win]ERROR: Failed to parse %1$s
[2009-09-22 12:56:19 - win]AndroidManifest.xml
<activity android:name=".win"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
As I understand these are default themes and it doesnt require any change in
my resource files. Am I right?
Karthik
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> >
>
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