You could have a look at different themes e.g. android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Light.Panel"
(but that one doesn't have a title bar....) You could try switching back to a normal theme afterwards, think it's Context.setTheme. Lee On Sep 24, 11:54 am, Abdul Mateen <abmat...@gmail.com> wrote: > hmm thank you! > > - assigning an ID to root layout and setting it to invisible fine! works > - but can you tell me how do I set the background of activity to be > transparent there is no attribute in Manifest as background! > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Lee <lee.wil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > There might be a better way, but this is how I do it: > > > - assign an ID to the root layout of your activity, and set it to > > invisible > > - do showDialog in the onCreate method of your activity > > - in onDismissDialog of your activity, do rootLayout.setVisibility > > (View.VISIBLE) > > > You get a black screen behind the dialog though. Guess you could > > fiddle with > > your activity background (e.g. transparent) to avoid this. > > > Lee > > > On Sep 24, 10:33 am, Abdul Mateen <abmat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I want to display Dialog Box when the application is launched before > > loading > > > and launching the activity. > > > > or you can say I want to show the dialog on launcher after the launch of > > my > > > application. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---