[android-developers] Re: How to split a screen into two? One running with an application and the other with another application?
You need to set the theme in the manifest. The code sample is missing the @ in front of android. There are various examples in ApiDemos of dialog and translucent themed activities. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: I saw the below portion in the documentation, By setting the theme of an activity to android:theme=android:style/Theme.Dialog, your activity will take on the appearance of a normal dialog, floating on top of whatever was underneath it. You usually set the theme through the android:theme attribute in your Android Manifest.xml. The advantage of this over Dialg and AlertDialog is that Application has a much better managed. I tried to follow this but it throwed up an error saying unable to parse AndroidManifest.xml. I guess you are saying in the similar lines to make it translucent. My AndroidManifest.xml looked like this ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? manifest xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; package=com.sample.window android:versionCode=1 android:versionName=1.0 application android:icon=@drawable/icon android:label=@string/app_name activity android:name=.window android:label=@string/app_name android:theme=android:style/Theme.Dialog intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER / /intent-filter /activity /application uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=4 / /manifest then I tried thru the code using setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Dialog); Above piece of code has built successfully but still I couldnt see any floating app, the app was occupying full screen. The same experiment I did with Theme.Translucent as well. Any light on this? Karthik On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: There is no need to use SurfaceView for that, just make your own activity transparent such as with Theme.Translucent. Anyway, the UI model is designed around having one main fullscreen activity visible to the user (any number of non-fullscreen or translucent activities can be stacked on top of it). There is no way to have two running side-by-side without significant deep cooperation between the two apps. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Rud rudmerr...@gmail.com wrote: Just speculating but maybe using SurfaceView with a transparent region? The background app might show through the transparent area of the foreground app. Rud On Sep 21, 7:43 am, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it possible for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other screen? Any help in this regard will be of great help. Karthik -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to split a screen into two? One running with an application and the other with another application?
I tried that too... I get the following error. [2009-09-22 12:56:19 - win]ERROR: Failed to parse %1$s [2009-09-22 12:56:19 - win]AndroidManifest.xml activity android:name=.win android:label=@string/app_name android:theme=@android:style/Theme.Dialog As I understand these are default themes and it doesnt require any change in my resource files. Am I right? Karthik On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: You need to set the theme in the manifest. The code sample is missing the @ in front of android. There are various examples in ApiDemos of dialog and translucent themed activities. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: I saw the below portion in the documentation, By setting the theme of an activity to android:theme=android:style/Theme.Dialog, your activity will take on the appearance of a normal dialog, floating on top of whatever was underneath it. You usually set the theme through the android:theme attribute in your Android Manifest.xml. The advantage of this over Dialg and AlertDialog is that Application has a much better managed. I tried to follow this but it throwed up an error saying unable to parse AndroidManifest.xml. I guess you are saying in the similar lines to make it translucent. My AndroidManifest.xml looked like this ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? manifest xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; package=com.sample.window android:versionCode=1 android:versionName=1.0 application android:icon=@drawable/icon android:label=@string/app_name activity android:name=.window android:label=@string/app_name android:theme=android:style/Theme.Dialog intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER / /intent-filter /activity /application uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=4 / /manifest then I tried thru the code using setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Dialog); Above piece of code has built successfully but still I couldnt see any floating app, the app was occupying full screen. The same experiment I did with Theme.Translucent as well. Any light on this? Karthik On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: There is no need to use SurfaceView for that, just make your own activity transparent such as with Theme.Translucent. Anyway, the UI model is designed around having one main fullscreen activity visible to the user (any number of non-fullscreen or translucent activities can be stacked on top of it). There is no way to have two running side-by-side without significant deep cooperation between the two apps. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Rud rudmerr...@gmail.com wrote: Just speculating but maybe using SurfaceView with a transparent region? The background app might show through the transparent area of the foreground app. Rud On Sep 21, 7:43 am, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it possible for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other screen? Any help in this regard will be of great help. Karthik -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to split a screen into two? One running with an application and the other with another application?
No new resources needed. Again, please see the complete working examples in ApiDemos. Fwiw, I can't see what the error you are printing has to do with your code (nor did you include the part where it says the line number of the error). On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: I tried that too... I get the following error. [2009-09-22 12:56:19 - win]ERROR: Failed to parse %1$s [2009-09-22 12:56:19 - win]AndroidManifest.xml activity android:name=.win android:label=@string/app_name android:theme=@android:style/Theme.Dialog As I understand these are default themes and it doesnt require any change in my resource files. Am I right? Karthik On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: You need to set the theme in the manifest. The code sample is missing the @ in front of android. There are various examples in ApiDemos of dialog and translucent themed activities. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: I saw the below portion in the documentation, By setting the theme of an activity to android:theme=android:style/Theme.Dialog, your activity will take on the appearance of a normal dialog, floating on top of whatever was underneath it. You usually set the theme through the android:theme attribute in your Android Manifest.xml. The advantage of this over Dialg and AlertDialog is that Application has a much better managed. I tried to follow this but it throwed up an error saying unable to parse AndroidManifest.xml. I guess you are saying in the similar lines to make it translucent. My AndroidManifest.xml looked like this ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? manifest xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; package=com.sample.window android:versionCode=1 android:versionName=1.0 application android:icon=@drawable/icon android:label=@string/app_name activity android:name=.window android:label=@string/app_name android:theme=android:style/Theme.Dialog intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER / /intent-filter /activity /application uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=4 / /manifest then I tried thru the code using setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Dialog); Above piece of code has built successfully but still I couldnt see any floating app, the app was occupying full screen. The same experiment I did with Theme.Translucent as well. Any light on this? Karthik On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: There is no need to use SurfaceView for that, just make your own activity transparent such as with Theme.Translucent. Anyway, the UI model is designed around having one main fullscreen activity visible to the user (any number of non-fullscreen or translucent activities can be stacked on top of it). There is no way to have two running side-by-side without significant deep cooperation between the two apps. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Rud rudmerr...@gmail.com wrote: Just speculating but maybe using SurfaceView with a transparent region? The background app might show through the transparent area of the foreground app. Rud On Sep 21, 7:43 am, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it possible for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other screen? Any help in this regard will be of great help. Karthik -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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
[android-developers] Re: How to split a screen into two? One running with an application and the other with another application?
Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it possible for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other screen? That is not presently possible in Android. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to split a screen into two? One running with an application and the other with another application?
Yeah - as far as I know, the current activity for the currently running foreground app is the one that has claim to the entire screen. So, I don't think this is possible either. - Mike On Sep 21, 11:05 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it possible for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other screen? That is not presently possible in Android. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to split a screen into two? One running with an application and the other with another application?
Just speculating but maybe using SurfaceView with a transparent region? The background app might show through the transparent area of the foreground app. Rud On Sep 21, 7:43 am, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it possible for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other screen? Any help in this regard will be of great help. Karthik --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to split a screen into two? One running with an application and the other with another application?
There is no need to use SurfaceView for that, just make your own activity transparent such as with Theme.Translucent. Anyway, the UI model is designed around having one main fullscreen activity visible to the user (any number of non-fullscreen or translucent activities can be stacked on top of it). There is no way to have two running side-by-side without significant deep cooperation between the two apps. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Rud rudmerr...@gmail.com wrote: Just speculating but maybe using SurfaceView with a transparent region? The background app might show through the transparent area of the foreground app. Rud On Sep 21, 7:43 am, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it possible for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other screen? Any help in this regard will be of great help. Karthik -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to split a screen into two? One running with an application and the other with another application?
I saw the below portion in the documentation, By setting the theme of an activity to android:theme=android:style/Theme.Dialog, your activity will take on the appearance of a normal dialog, floating on top of whatever was underneath it. You usually set the theme through the android:theme attribute in your Android Manifest.xml. The advantage of this over Dialg and AlertDialog is that Application has a much better managed. I tried to follow this but it throwed up an error saying unable to parse AndroidManifest.xml. I guess you are saying in the similar lines to make it translucent. My AndroidManifest.xml looked like this ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? manifest xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; package=com.sample.window android:versionCode=1 android:versionName=1.0 application android:icon=@drawable/icon android:label=@string/app_name activity android:name=.window android:label=@string/app_name android:theme=android:style/Theme.Dialog intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER / /intent-filter /activity /application uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=4 / /manifest then I tried thru the code using setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Dialog); Above piece of code has built successfully but still I couldnt see any floating app, the app was occupying full screen. The same experiment I did with Theme.Translucent as well. Any light on this? Karthik On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: There is no need to use SurfaceView for that, just make your own activity transparent such as with Theme.Translucent. Anyway, the UI model is designed around having one main fullscreen activity visible to the user (any number of non-fullscreen or translucent activities can be stacked on top of it). There is no way to have two running side-by-side without significant deep cooperation between the two apps. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Rud rudmerr...@gmail.com wrote: Just speculating but maybe using SurfaceView with a transparent region? The background app might show through the transparent area of the foreground app. Rud On Sep 21, 7:43 am, Karthik P karthi...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it possible for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other screen? Any help in this regard will be of great help. Karthik -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
