I know it may not be best practice but this is what i want

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Asked: May 19, 20262026-05-19T09:58:26+00:00 2026-05-19T09:58:26+00:00

I know it may not be best practice but this is what i want

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I know it may not be best practice but this is what i want to do.

When my broadcast receiver is called – start a new activity which has is not fullscreen and has a transparent background – which opens on top of your current activity / desktop wallpaper.

The code I have so far is as follows:

I create + call a new activity with :


  Intent testActivityIntent = new Intent(context, com.andy.tabletsms.work.SMSPopup.class);
                testActivityIntent.putExtra("com.andy.tabletsms.message", main.msgs.get(i));
                testActivityIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                testActivityIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY);
                context.startActivity(testActivityIntent);

And then the activity has a theme of :

android:theme=”@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar”

And the code of the activity is just a bog standard activity with a simple layout. However when that broadcast receiver starts the activity – it appears on top of the previous activity which was started when the applicaiton started…..as per this image shows :
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