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

They are launching an activity, but they've set the activity's theme so it looks like a Dialog.

In your manifest, you have to add something like this under the tag: android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"