Floating Windows for Android, provides an API to display multiple
floating windows within (or without) an activity.
It includes all the required methods like show(), dismiss(), lock()…
among others in order to have full management of the floating windows
lifecycle.
To setup de library just add the dependency to your module-level gradle:
compile 'com.diroag.floatingwindows:floatingwindows:0.1.2'
In order to learn how to use the library you can check the sample app.
The first step is to inherit from FloatingWindowView. It is an
abstract class which requires you to implement the method:
View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater).
The classes you extend from it will be your floating window views, you
can create as many as you need. Check it on the sample:
SampleView
Once we got our floating window views, next step is to get an instance
of the FloatingWindowController class, which controlls all sort of
window operations.
To do it you could call it on your activity onCreate as following:
FloatingWindowController fwc = FloatingWindowController.create(this);
With the controller class now you are able to show your floating
windows via the methods: show(…) or showAtLocation(…). For a
complete example look at the sample's
MainActivity
There are methods that you can call from the controller class or your
floating window views like: dismiss(), lock(), unlock(), but the show
methods can only be called from the controller.
Remember to request the permission to draw over windows:
Settings.ACTION_MANAGE_OVERLAY_PERMISSION before using the show
method.
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