How to show an Activity as pop-up on other Activity?

Question

I have an Activity A, and there is a button B in the view. If somebody presses B then I want a pop-up which can take some part of screen making the A invisible in that area but rest of A is visible but not active. How can I achieve this?

score 73 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '10 at 09:38

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If you want to do this using an Activity instead of a Dialog, you can do this by setting the activity's theme to android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog" in the manifest - this will make the activity appear like a dialog (floating on top of whatever was underneath it).

answered Jul 28 '10 at 09:38

oli

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somehow it didn't work for me :(. I tried to set up the theme using setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Dialog). – bhups Jul 28 '10 at 15:04
Have you tried setting the theme to the activity in the manifest instead? – oli Jul 28 '10 at 15:40
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Perfect!! How do I remove the title? – Skynet Jan 20 '15 at 08:08
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use this in the manifest also: `android:label="Custom title bar"` – TheLogicGuy Jun 21 '20 at 21:48

score 24 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '16 at 00:02

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For AppCompat, add

android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Dialog.Alert"

to the activity in AndroidManifest

answered Jan 26 '16 at 00:02

Actiwitty

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it works, but how to add dismiss button? – Pisumathu Dec 06 '21 at 07:58

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '10 at 09:37

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The Dialog class is perfect to do that. you can find easy examples here.

answered Jul 28 '10 at 09:37

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 20 '14 at 17:35

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Just to add on oli's answer, make sure to use the Dialog from the theme you are using in your application.

In my case I did android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog"

answered May 20 '14 at 17:35

Caio Faustino

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 24 '14 at 18:04

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For appcompat this can be used in the manifest

<activity android:theme="@style/Theme.Base.AppCompat.Dialog.FixedSize" >
</activity>

answered Nov 24 '14 at 18:04

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Vikram Rao · Answer 6 · 2014-12-11T12:31:21.113

Setting theme to android:theme="@android:style/android:Theme.Holo.Panel" worked for me.

Steps - 1. Set theme for the activity in manifest file to android:theme="@android:style/android:Theme.Holo.Panel" (This has to be changed to whatever theme is being used). Ex:

<activity
      android:name=".EditActivity"
      android:theme="@android:style/android:Theme.Holo.Panel"
      android:label="@string/title_activity_edit" >
</activity>

In the activity resource xml set appropriate padding and width on the root layout. I have set it to 0 and added a child layout at the beginning with alpha to show some part of the previous activity.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 10 '18 at 09:24

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if you are working with Material Design you should use @android:style/Theme.Material.Dialog.NoActionBar

answered Jan 10 '18 at 09:24

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 23 '20 at 17:01

You can do it programicly

Create Class MyDialog

    import android.app.Activity;
    import android.app.Dialog;
    import android.view.Window;
    import android.widget.TextView;

    public class MyDialoge{
        Activity activity;
        TextView txt_Message;
        Dialog dialog;
        public ViewDialog(Activity activity) {

            this.activity = activity;

        }

       public void showDialog(String message){
        dialog = new Dialog(activity);
        dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
        dialog.setCancelable(false);
        dialog.setContentView(R.layout.custom_progress_dialog);


         txt_Message = dialog.findViewById(R.id.txt_message);
         txt_Message.setText(message);


       //if you want to dimiss the dialog
       //dialog.dimiss()


        dialog.show();

    }
        public void dimiss(){

            try {
                dialog.dismiss();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }


        }



    }

After that crate the layout -> call it my_dialog

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
      <RelativeLayout 
       xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="300dp"
        android:layout_gravity="center"

        >

       <TextView
           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:layout_centerInParent="true"
           android:text="Hello PopUp Message"/>


    </RelativeLayout>

In your Activity

MyDialog myDialog = new MyDialog(MainActivity.this);

        myDialog.showDialog("Say Hello to Me");

To dimiss

 myDialog.dimiss();

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