Hello everyone! I've been researching about how to change/remove the dimming/scrim in the Dialog com...

# compose

[Eric Martori]

Hello everyone! I've been researching about how to change/remove the dimming/scrim in the Dialog composable. I've found some outdated solutions in the chat history and this ticket in the issue tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/159900354 but I do not know how to proceed with this.
Is there a way to do it without re-implementing the whole thing? If re-implementation is needed what exactly needs to be changed? I cannot find in the Dialog Composable code where the dimming effect is being applied.

[Colton Idle]

I feel like if I needed a "dialog" but remove the scrim I think I would just use a

Box{
MyContent()
if (dialogShowing){
MyDialog
}
}

and call it a day? A dialog uses Window apis and stuff and so I think there's just a bunch of default stuff that just doesn't have any controls AFAIK. So yeah, I'd just try to fake it. Curious if someone else has an actual solution.

[Eric Martori]

that is what I have right now, but this requires a lot of boiler plate to correctly manage the back press behaviour

[Eric Martori]

I need a dialog that prevents the user to exit the dialog without interacting with it. Think of a mandatory update alert for example.

And the client is very adamant that the scrim is not there for some of this dialogs

[lhwdev]

I don't know more but you can get LocalView.current, get its parent view then cast into DialogWindowProvider. (seeing Dialog source code; but don't know something can happen with it)

[Eric Martori]

@lhwdev This approach worked, it might break in the future but for now it does what I need. Thank you