Overlay an activity on another activity OR overlay a view over another

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newbie picture newbie · Oct 24, 2011 · Viewed 58.4k times · Source

I have 2 classes, FirstActivity and SecondActivity.

First Activity

Intent intent=new Intent(getApplicationContext(),SecondActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);

Is it possible for SecondActivity to overlay on FirstActivity? ie. FirstActivity gets dimmed, SecondActivity gets displayed on top of FirstActivity.

If it is not possible for 2 different activities, is it possible to do an overlay for 2 views in the same activity? I hope using dialog is not the only option.

Answer

Alan Moore picture Alan Moore · Oct 24, 2011

I suggest you set your second activity up as a dialog -- which will dim the background. Here is a tutorial that could be helpful:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html

http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials/how-display-custom-dialog-your-android-application

Or you can simply set the theme in the manifest as a dialog for your SecondActivity.

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