Android VideoView: Video view is much darker in a dialog view

Question

Hi all I have a problem with embedding a video view inside a dialog view

everything works fine except that the video displayed in the Dialog is much darker that if displayed in the rest of the activity

any ideas ?

here is some code

button1main.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                public VideoView videoView = null;
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    //set up dialog
                    Dialog dialog = new Dialog(CustomDialog.this);
                    dialog.setContentView(R.layout.maindialog);
                    //dialog.setTitle("This is my custom dialog box");
                    dialog.setCancelable(true);


                    this.videoView = (VideoView) dialog.findViewById(R.id.video);
                    VideoPlayer vp = new VideoPlayer(this.videoView, null);
                    vp.playVideo();

                    //set up button
                    Button button = (Button) dialog.findViewById(R.id.Button01);
                    button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                        public void onClick(View v) {
                            finish();
                        }
                    });
                    //now that the dialog is set up, it's time to show it    
                    dialog.show();
                }
            });

Answer 1

it seems that the VideoView gets dimmed because it is created behind the window. Jason Rogers solution works but means that the area behind the dialog will not get dimmed.

I used

mVideoView.setZOrderOnTop(true);

to bring the VideoView to front, so that it does not get dimmed, but still everything behind the dialog will.