windowIsFloating attribute in Android theme

android window themes
kishidp picture kishidp · Apr 19, 2013 · Viewed 16.6k times · Source

What does this attribute really do?

I've read the documentation and I understand what it's supposed to be. However, when I use it in a theme (I created a style with the android:Theme.Dialog as the parent), changing the value for this attribute doesn't seem to have any effect.

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Chin picture Chin · Jan 1, 2016

I don't know all of the effects of setting windowIsFloating to true, but one thing that I noticed is that when it is set to true, the activity would not expand the width to fill the screen, even if you set the layout width to match_parent (i.e. android:layout_width="match_parent")

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