android - Starting a View from a Service?

Question

Already asked a similar question, yet without much luck.

Suppose I have a service and I need a view to pop up above it. In the same time, they both should be intractable, i.e. the user should be able to both click buttons within the view, as well as ones on the service in the background.

Is this in theory possible? If yes, how should I initialize that view?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes it's possible, what you need to do is call the WindowManager service and add your view via the same.

WindowManager windowManager=(WindowManager)getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE);
LayoutInflater inflater=(LayoutInflater)getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
RelativeLayout layout=(RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.box,null);

You need a WindowManager.LayoutParams object which should contain the parameters for the layout

windowManager.addView(layout,params);

Well, adds the view