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Asked: 2026-05-27T06:17:12+00:00

I want to launch a dialog from a service that hovers over whatever the

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I want to launch a dialog from a service that hovers over whatever the user is currently looking at. The dialog gets launched like this: service gets trigger to open dialog > start transparent activity > transparent activity shows dialog.

My problem is when the user opens the app, launches into the main menu, and then presses HOME to leave. By pressing HOME, it leaves the main menu activity on pause, not destroyed, and when the service starts the dialog, the main menu gets shown underneath the transparent activity; causing the dialog to loose the affect of hovering over whatever the user is looking at.

How can make it so that the transparent activity gets opened independently of any other activities in the app? The only way to prevent this currently is to finish all the activities when they are paused; but this is impractical.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Found this out myself, just add the Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK flag to the launch Intent; of course in conjunction with the Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag.

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