Question

I’d like to recreate a functionality similar to a Swing GlassPane to be able to display animations while the user uses the app “below” normally. I cannot simply create a separate layout and attach it to each activity since the animation state would be lost when switching activities.
Is there a way to keep a persistent view over all the activities of an Android application ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

No its not. Every Activity runs in its own thread and is by design supposed to be runnable standalone.

But you could persist the animation state into the DB or into sharedPreferences and start it over at the new activity.

What you could also do is to use a Spinner or another control instead of seperate activitys. Then you could have a persistent view.