Android Activity as a dialog

Question

I have an Activity named whereActity which has child dialogs as well. Now, I want to display this activity as a dialog for another activity.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

1 - You can use the same activity as both dialog and full screen, dynamically:

Call setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Dialog) before calling setContentView(...) and super.oncreate() in your Activity.

2 - If you don't plan to change the activity theme style you can use

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

(as mentioned by @faisal khan)

Answer 2

Set the theme in your android manifest file.

<activity android:name=".LoginActivity"
            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"/>

And set the dialog state on touch to finish.

this.setFinishOnTouchOutside(false);

Answer 3

You can define this style in values/styles.xml to perform a more former Splash :

   <style name="Theme.UserDialog" parent="android:style/Theme.Dialog">
        <item name="android:windowFrame">@null</item>
        <item name="android:windowIsFloating">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="android:background">@android:color/transparent</item>
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/trans</item>
    </style>

And use it AndroidManifest.xml:

   <activity android:name=".SplashActivity"
          android:configChanges="orientation"
          android:screenOrientation="sensor"
          android:theme="@style/Theme.UserDialog">

Answer 4

If you need Appcompat Version

style.xml

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppDialogTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>

yourmanifest.xml

    <activity
          android:name=".MyActivity"
          android:label="@string/title"
          android:theme="@style/AppDialogTheme">
    </activity>

Answer 5

If you want to remove activity header & provide a custom view for the dialog add the following to the activity block of you manifest

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

and design your activity_layout with your desired view

Answer 6

To start activity as dialog I defined it like this in AndroidManifest.xml:

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

Use this property inside your activity tag to avoid that your Dialog appears in the recently used apps list

android:excludeFromRecents="true"

If you want to stop your dialog / activity from being destroyed when the user clicks outside of the dialog:

After setContentView() in your Activity use:

this.setFinishOnTouchOutside(false);

Now when I call startActivity() it displays as a dialog, with the previous activity shown when the user presses the back button.

Note that if you are using ActionBarActivity (or AppCompat theme), you'll need to use @style/Theme.AppCompat.Dialog instead.