If you are modifying the system, just add something that runs in a persistent process (such as phone or system) that creates a window in the desired layer to be on top of other windows.
(Note this is not a widget in the android definition, either as a member of android.widget or an "app widget" that would go on the home screen.) The CPU usage UI that you can enable from dev tools does this kind of thing: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;f=services/java/com/android/server/LoadAverageService.java;h=0d86429aaa5ccf6ecf311dfb3af0f3ccbf5f8d29;hb=HEAD On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:18 PM, David R. <[email protected]> wrote: > Experts - I'm banging my head on the wall. I have a small temperature/ > date/time > widget. When I touch the widget it changes from current temp to > current date to current time, and back. I would like to find a way to > display my widget always on top of all applications? > > Is this possible? I've tried continually changing focus to my widget > app but doesn't seem to work (ie. just instantaneously goes away > "behind" the current app). Any ideas on accomplishing this? Are > there any apps out there that are displaying their widget or info > button over the top of all apps????? > > Is there even a hack to accomplish this? > > Thanks for any help!!!! > Davey > > -- > unsubscribe: > [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- 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. -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
