Hi all, i would like to know if it is possible to ...

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[Kevin]

Hi all, i would like to know if it is possible to show/hide UI element over a two separated activity?
in example, i had to 2 activities, first is the main activity(home) and second is the support activity(something like information or pop up).

from this examples i want to somehow show the support activity overlaying the main activity, so far i able to do this by doing include of the support activity layout on the main activity file.
the next thing i want to do, is that i want to be able to interact with the support activity, which is the basic interaction was only a show/hide elements. i was thinking that i should be able to do this by using visibility = View.GONE or visibility = View.VISIBLE on the textview element, but no matter what i do, everytime i click on the textview, it results in the app crashing.

i'm quite stuck on this part, do anyone have any idea or insight on where do i wrong? or what should i do?

thank you!

[Andrew]

Activities are meant only show 1 at a time so fundamentally this is impossible. Fragments solve this problem and in this particular case it sounds like it should just be a dialogfragment which is not much different but gives the popup effect you want.

[Kevin]

Ok, somehow i got what you mean. so the process was like: main activities -> include the second activities as dialog fragment -> add view.gone or view.visible on the second activities.

does the dialogfragment usually will prevent this kind of app crash due to multiple activities overlaying on each other?

also i kind of forgot about it because of the name, but it's not completely popup effect, the second activity will show up in a custom ShowCaseView like manner.

[Kevin]

thank you for the suggestion, i have figured on how to do the show/hide element.