Is it possible to have a screen that is floating over other screens, kinda like a Full Screen Dialog...

# compose

[Lilly]

Is it possible to have a screen that is floating over other screens, kinda like a Full Screen Dialog? I'm not looking for a modification of a Dialog but something more low level, simply a screen that overlays another screen

[mattinger]

You don’t need a route to have a dialog. You can simply take a normal approach of defining some remembered state:

val (showDialog, onShowDialogChanged) = remember { mutableStateOf(false) }

[mattinger]

Then just create the dialog:

[mattinger]

if (showDialog) {
   Dialog(....)
}

[mattinger]

and just turn the flag on and off to show it. It can live entirely within your existing route.

[Lilly]

Thanks but I'm not asking for how to create a dialog. I want a screen that overlays like a dialog does but dont want a dialog. I'm looking for a lower level component

[allan.conda]

How about adding a new Window just like how Dialog does it?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

There are two ways to do this, depending on what you need:

1. At the root of your composition use a Box to overlay your modal content over the other content
.
1. Use the Popup composable
. It uses a different window, like Dialog, but without all the styling implications of Dialog.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Eg the text selection handles use Popup. I think DropdownMenu does as well.

[Lilly]

@Allan @Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] Thanks guys. I'm interested in adding a new Window so Dialog or Popup would be suitable...but. I have a problem with the misleading intention (a Popup is a Popup, not a screen). So if I don't want to go with Popup or Dialog I would have to compose my own "FullScreen" component by leveraging the underlying Dialog/Popup logic (i.e. adding a new Window), right?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

You should be able to make a Popup take up the whole screen if you want. If you want to wrap that in your own composable to enforce styling or api requirements, go ahead.