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Amr El Aswar
Amr El Aswar

Reputation: 3515

Resizing activities from other apps or adding a view of another activity

I have been using android's window manager to addviews to the screen and putting the activity to the back so it looks like the activity is run on a floating window drawn over other apps , by simply inflating the view and using windowmanager.addView(view, windowParameters) now what I would like to know is if it would be possible to do this on a view from another app or is it possible to run an activity from another app in mine.

Also could it be possible to resize a view of another app ?

Any doucumentation, example or reference is appreciated.

The question might not be very clear , excuse my bad english.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 183

Answers (1)

David Wasser
David Wasser

Reputation: 95588

No, you can't do that.

The reason is security and privacy.

Your app is running in one or more processes that have a specific user-id. Other apps are running in their own processes, each of which has a specific user-id. The underlying operating system prevents code in one process from accessing memory in another process. Because of this, you cannot get a reference to a Window or a View in another application.

Upvotes: 1

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