Hello everyone :pray: If I'm using dialog to cover...

# compose

[Ahmed Shehata]

Hello everyone 🙏
If I'm using dialog to cover all screen and I want to make user image to be drawn over this dialog to be something like this ,
I tried many time to add zindex for this view but still not working for me
Image on left is actual design - Image on right is current -

[Sean Proctor]

Which dialog are you using? If you use one that doesn't draw the background, you can put the user images in the dialog. I know Popup does this, I'm can't remember the behavior of Dialog on Android, but it might work as well.

[Ahmed Shehata]

can you explain more please ?

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

I think z-index only has an effect if you are within the same “screen”. You might try adding a full-screen Box or something instead of a separate Dialog to see if it is working if all elements are in the same Composable scope

[Ahmed Shehata]

yup z-index works only if there are at the same parent view
but in my scenario I tried your solution but still bottom navigation view is not covered with this effect cuz it's in a different screen 🙏

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

I’m affraid you then need to add the overlay on the same level as the BottomNavigation and fing a way to pass the state change up to that level.
Or duplicate the item you want to highlight and add it on your Dialog on the exact position it originally is positioned.

[Sean Proctor]

I don't think you can use BottomNavigation for this. You need something that can fill the entire screen and draw your icons where you want. https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/window/package-summary

[Sean Proctor]

I think Dialog works pretty well for this.