activity as dialog in android

Question

I want to use an activity as dialog and i made the theme of the activity as dialog & i succeed. but i have the problem here is when i click outside of the activity its automatically get closed & the previous activity get started..

i tried a thing to make transparent parent layout it does not look like a dialog..

i want to use this activity to create new account in my application as it has only 3 fields so in tablet it looks large space unused... so i want to use activity as dialog.....

thenx in advance...!!! examples will be appreciated..!!!!!

Answer 1

try with following property

    this.setFinishOnTouchOutside(false);