How do I create a transparent Activity on Android?

Question

I want to create a transparent Activity on top of another activity.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

There're two ways:

1. Using Theme.NoDisplay
2. Using Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar

Using Theme.NoDisplay will still work… but only on older Android devices. On Android 6.0 and higher, using Theme.NoDisplay without calling finish() in onCreate() (or, technically, before onResume()) will crash your app. This is why the recommendation is to use Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar, which does not suffer from this limitation.”