Monday, September 26, 2011

[android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

Is there moderation time or something on these forums, why do posts
appear, go invisible, appear again. Honestly, worlds greatest search
engine fails at forums.

http://www.ryangmattison.com/post/2011/09/26/Android-Custom-Transparent-Dialog-Alarm-Style-.aspx

Ryan Mattison

On Sep 26, 1:37 pm, John Goche <johngoch...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know whether it is somehow possible
> to create a popup window which does not take up the
> whole display area. I am asking because I need to display
> a message when an alarm expires but do not want to resort
> to notifications because they seem to be squished in the top
> right corner of the phone and I think would make it hard to turn
> an alarm off it it were a notification. On the other hand bringing
> up an entire window could obfuscate other applications. I guess
> there is nothing like HP/Palm webOS's notification mechanism
> on android (there you can pop up a window and the users can
> still keep on interacting with whatever app they were using or
> close the popup window)???
>
> Regards,
>
> John Goche

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