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.
>
>
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