How do they do it? Dialogs over home screen

Question

I\'m writing an Android application and I would like to place a dialog or view over the home screen so that a user can enter text without jumping into my full application. I

Answer 1

My problem was that the application always launched to display the dialog.

To solve this, I set the activity lauch mode to singleInstance in the manifest. Now it shows the dialog over the home screen!