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blackpop
blackpop

Reputation: 33

Android-Overlay/Draw Over Everything

I am trying to make a android app which can display widgets(button,textbox,etc) over everything(every app or every activity) much like the facebook chatheads or floating notifications

so far I am able to draw rectangle over everything except the notifications status bar.

I am using TouchSoftly in this project [github/t0mm13b/TouchSoftly]

so far i am here : http://s21.postimg.org/5fzk796xz/Capture.png

what i want to achieve is http://s10.postimg.org/ptvc3m2eh/Untitled.png

please help me to draw over the notifications bar

what i tried but didnt work for me:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1720

Answers (2)

Danny
Danny

Reputation: 574

Note that in Android kitkat (4.4), Google added the immersive mode, that allows you to display views over the top and bottom bars.

Upvotes: 1

Vivek Soneja
Vivek Soneja

Reputation: 880

Please refer the following link for details:

http://www.piwai.info/chatheads-basics/

What APIs in Android is Facebook using to create Chat Heads?

Upvotes: 0

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