Question

I’m writing a custom keyboard for Android and I’m using InputMethodService to handle all keyboard-related events.

On a certain event, I present an Activity with Theme.Dialog theme to the user, but when it’s presented, it dismisses currently visible KeyboardView and I want the keyboard to stay visible under the running activity.
Is there a way to avoid dismissing the keyboard or maybe there are more efficient ways to present a dialog with a few buttons to the user from a running Service?

Activity declaration in AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity
  android:name=".EditActivity"
  android:label="@string/edit_title"
  android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"
  />

The code used to present the activity:

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), EditActivity.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);

Thanks in advance!

//UPDATE

Everything works correctly and KeyboardView is brought back when the Activity is not transparent, so removing the theme declaration:

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"

fixes everything. So the question is, how to present a translucent Activity without dismissing the KeyboardView?

Answer 1

Okay I figured out how to do it, here is my answer to a different question with the solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13652456/285680