Starting a View from a Service?

Question

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Suppose I have a service and I need a view to pop up above it. In the same time, they both should be intract

Answer 1

Yes it's possible, what you need to do is call the WindowManager service and add your view via the same.

WindowManager windowManager=(WindowManager)getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE);
LayoutInflater inflater=(LayoutInflater)getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
RelativeLayout layout=(RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.box,null);

You need a WindowManager.LayoutParams object which should contain the parameters for the layout

windowManager.addView(layout,params);

Well, adds the view