StandOut - Create Floating Android Apps
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering how to build Facebook chat-head style floating windows or overlays over other Android apps.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2013 to 2015.
What it is
A under-one-minute demo of StandOut, an open source Android library for building floating, window-like overlays that sit on top of other apps. It was posted in 2012 by the library's author, Mark Wei, with links to the project page and an XDA forum thread.
What people said
Recommends amalBit · 2013-07 · Stack Overflow · on “android sdk facebook circle activity”
I dont know the exact answer, but here is a library that hovers over any application . Here is a demo video. [this video] Check this out. StandOutLibrary. [LINK] You may find it usefull.
Cites Sathya · 2013-09 · Stack Overflow · on “Draggable drawer with a handle (instead of action bar) on top of other apps”
Its quite an interesting idea you got there. From what I've understood so far; you want to create a navigation drawer type view and implement it like a floating overlay. It is possible. I have found possible resources which may help you. You could either use a Window manager,wrap the navigation drawer view within the Window Manager, call it with a service. And Track the user touch motion with the WinodowManager. LaoutParams.(with the x & y position of the touch; using onTouchListner) Here is an open source project where they are trying to create a facebook chat head like feature using WindowManager [LINK] There is also an Android library, which you can creating floating windows.I presume the
Cites gruszczy · 2015-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Docking wear app to watch face”
You can't receive touch events inside the WatchFaceService , touch delivery is disabled. I can't say for sure how the app you saw implemented the desired behavior, but it probably did by inserting views directly into the WindowManager from a Service . Checkout this youtube video: [this video] I don't know how well the Standout library [LINK] does its job, but it should give you enough examples to figure out yourself, how to add views to the WindowManager .