I want to implement a help overlay for my app. It should look like this: How do I create a help overlay like you see in a few Android apps and ICS?
final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(this);
dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
dialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(android.graphics.Color.TRANSPARENT));
dialog.setContentView(R.layout.coach_mark);
dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);
//for dismissing anywhere you touch
View masterView = dialog.findViewById(R.id.coach_mark_master_view);
masterView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
dialog.dismiss();
}
});
dialog.show();
This works very well. The RelativeLayout of coach_mark.xml is displayed over my existing layout which was set via setContentView(). Now I want to align the views of coach_mark.xml near the according views of the existing layout, in order to react dynammically to the resolution and screen size. This is what I have tried:
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW,R.id.view_of_main_layout);
view_of_the_overlay.setLayoutParams(lp);
But the view is displayed just in the middle of the screen. The only thing I could archieve is to align the view to bottom of screen, but that is not what I want to do.
Thanks for your help.