I figured it could be done in the XML of the activities layout and googled and found this:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html in particular the section on this page Apply a theme to an Activity or applicationseems to have this example. Mike On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Peder <peder.nordenst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I'm not very familiar with the android SDK yet. > I have an application (game), which is developed mainly using the NDK, > and uses egl to render. i have an activity which handles the egl > swapbuffer and runs the games native main loop, pretty straight > forward I guess. > > Now I have made another activity which host a TableLayout containing > an EditText as well as a button (simply for text-input later used by > the game). I spawn this activity from my main activity using > startActivityForResult. The small problem I'm having now is that I > can't manage to make this "popup" activity to have a background, so my > paused game will reside in the background, with the various widgets > just overlaid. This is not very pretty in my opinion, and I would like > to at least have a solid background color for my spawned activity > while it's active. I *could* just simply go into some state in the > games main loop which clears the gl-screen just before I spawn the new > activity. But I don't like this solution and it's a tad more work then > I'm prepared to put in just at this time in the project. I'm pretty > sure there is some simple way to just set a background color somehow, > I just can't find *any* way to do it, I've looked around in the SDK > resources and tried to search for any hints towards this, but i'm just > not familiar enough with the java SDK to find what i'm looking for. > > On a side note I would also like to be able to center the EditText > widget as well as the button on the screen once the Activity is > active, I haven't looked very deeply into it yet, but from a quick > glance of the documentation I couldn't really find any suitable > positioning methods in the tablelayout class. But as I said, haven't > looked very hard. Can probably solve that one easy, but i'm just > throwing this in as well :) > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
