Android overlay a view ontop of everything?

Question

Can you overlay a view on top of everything in android?

In iPhone I would get the new view set its frame.origin to (0,0) and its width and height to the

Answer 1

I have just made a solution for it. I made a library for this to do that in a reusable way that's why you don't need to recode in your XML. Here is documentation on how to use it in Java and Kotlin. First, initialize it from an activity from where you want to show the overlay-

AppWaterMarkBuilder.doConfigure()
                .setAppCompatActivity(MainActivity.this)
                .setWatermarkProperty(R.layout.layout_water_mark)
                .showWatermarkAfterConfig();

Then you can hide and show it from anywhere in your app -

  /* For hiding the watermark*/
  AppWaterMarkBuilder.hideWatermark() 

  /* For showing the watermark*/
  AppWaterMarkBuilder.showWatermark() 

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