Have you considered http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW that facebook uses for its chat heads. But this needs explicit user permission during apk installation. Not sure how that works for 3rd party libraries.
On Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:00:09 AM UTC-8, Glenn Powell wrote: > > I don't think Notifications will work, since our popups need to show up > inside the publisher's app that has integrated our plugin. I believe > Notifications are only supposed to be used outside of apps, and I'm not > sure if they react to touches like we will need. > > As for plugin frameworks, we do already have something in place, but I > will watch through that Android talk when I have some time. Thanks > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:31:01 AM UTC-8, Jose_GD wrote: >> >> Why not use the standard Android notification system? >> >> Regarding plugins, I found useful this talk from Mark Murphy, since I'm >> working too in a plugin architecture for one of my apps: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu8Z_3TaWuE >> >> Hope this helps >> >> Cheers, >> >> José >> >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Jos%C3%A9+Gonz%C3%A1lez+D%27Amico >> >> >> El viernes, 17 de enero de 2014 23:44:39 UTC-3, Glenn Powell escribió: >>> >>> We are building a plugin library, which will be integrated into >>> third-party applications. It requires the ability to show Toast-like >>> notifications, which when tapped, will open our fullscreen widget Dialog. >>> >>> From my research it appears that Toasts were designed to explicitly >>> ignore any touch input. The next best option seems to be one of either a >>> PopupWindow, a Fragment, another Dialog with a transparent background, or >>> about 25 different solutions. We don't want to trap touches on the >>> entire screen, only over our notification popup. >>> >>> I am new to Android, so I'm curious to learn what the optimal solution >>> would be. I have seen other plugin integrations do similar things, so I >>> think there is probably an obvious way to tackle this. If you've >>> implemented something like this, can you please give us some pointers? >>> Thanks. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
