Windows floating window

There are many mini-apps. Each of them has a header file that contains the necessary information about it - localized name, internal identifier, icon, list of required permissions, launch preferences, window presets, etc. Headers files are kept in memory and used for listing available apps. Each of the apps extends Application that provides a basic set of features for managing its lifecycle, defining menus, handling window size, position, minimizing, etc.

Also, the Application class can automatically solve a lot of shortcomings in floating technology. I will teach you more about all these issues in one of the next articles. Also, all running apps are registered with the global list of active windows, and that allows for many exciting features - listing all active apps, running some of them only once, reactivating running apps instead of rerunning them, cross-app state refreshing, etc.

As you can see, there can be a vast logic. As normal Android apps rely on the system to provide many of these features, I had to rewrite all of these features for Floating Apps from scratch. As you can see in the animation below, we open our new floating window and even switch apps.

The window is still there visible above them. The whole source code for this article is available on Github. Eager to learn more about Android development? Follow me vaclavhodek and Localazy localazy on Twitter, or like Localazy on Facebook. Make sure you do not miss this update.

TOP or Gravity. LEFT params. This one is optional, but I tend to use it and calculate limits on my own. Those will instead go to whatever focusable window is behind it. If you do not want to download the APK file, you can install Floating Window Multitasking Utility Apps PC by connecting your Google account with the emulator and downloading the app from the play store directly.

Net Blocker - Block internet per app PC v 1. Simple Notes PC v 2. Pole Detector PC v 1. Fast n Clean Light. When a floating window is active, it appears in the foreground. When a window that is inside an additional dock is active, that dock appears in the foreground. When a docked window within the WinDbg window is active, one or more floating windows might still obscure the docked window.

To make a floating window or a docked window active, click its title bar. To make a docked window in a tabbed collection active, click its tab. You can also make a window active by using the WinDbg menu or toolbar. You can activate any window by clicking the window name at the bottom of the Window menu.

You can also activate any window other than a Memory window or a Source window by clicking its name on the View menu or clicking its toolbar button. By pressing these keys repeatedly, you can scan through all of the windows, regardless of whether they are floating, docked by themselves, or part of a tabbed collection of docked windows.

When you release the CTRL key, the window that you are currently viewing becomes active.