android-overlay

I have 2 views : View A and view B. View A is rendered and has actions to input a text value. Im displaying an overlay view - View B on top of this. I expect that the actions on View A get disabled but they do not and im still able to type in the input field on View A. How can i disable this ? The reason is that your overlay is not consuming the touch events , so by design if a view is not consuming touch events the events are passed to underlying view in the view model. So the long answer is make your overlay touchable, focusable , and touch listener and return true . short answer is add

I have an Android Wear app in which I use a transparent overlay view to recieve touch events. I need to be able to receive all touch events that happen anywhere on the screen, and also be able to see their coordinates. All research I have found says that I cannot recieve all touch events and pass them on. However, Wear Mini Launcher and Swipify are both doing something like this. Here is where I have looked: Android overlay to grab ALL touch, and pass them on? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19356834/overlay-view-which-intercepts-some-events Android - Intercept and pass on all touch events

Let me preface this with I have already read through Android "Screen Overlay Detected" message if user is trying to grant a permission when a notification is showing and I understand exactly what the overlay problem is. I also understand how to request it as well as how to check if my current running app has permission to draw on overlays (!Settings.canDrawOverlays(this)). I was getting scolded for my app because every time a permission request would popup, the overlays popup would be shown and even though users gave permission for my application to draw overlays, they could never get past the

I've been getting reports of some Xiaomi devices (e.g. Mi 2, running API level 21) not showing overlays. My app targets API 23. There are several posts out there regarding this. It seems that MIUI devices do not enable this permission at install time (unlike other pre-Marshmallow devices). Unfortunately, Settings.canDrawOverlays() only works on Android 23+. What is the correct way to check whether this permission has not yet been enabled pre-Marshmallow? Is there an Intent to take the user to the relevant MUIU settings page? Maybe: new Intent("android.settings.action.MANAGE_OVERLAY_PERMISSION"