Android - Activity that does not fill the parent screen

Question

Any idea why this doesn\'t create an activity that looks like a popup instead of an activity that completely fills the screen?

Answer 1

You must set your Activity's window to be floating. You can do this either by giving your activity the Dialog style defined by Android (android:style/Theme.Dialog), or define your own style, like this:

Then set the style on your activity in the application's Manifest.