Android Pop-up message

Question

I'm trying to get a pop up text box, with some disclaimer and app info at the start of my Android application's launch. Does anyone know how to implement this? Also could it read from a txt file?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want a Popup that closes automatically, you should look for Toasts. But if you want a dialog that the user has to close first before proceeding, you should look for a Dialog.

For both approaches it is possible to read a text file with the text you want to display. But you could also hardcode the text or use R.String to set the text.

Answer 2

You can use Dialog to create this easily

create a Dialog instance using the context

Dialog dialog = new Dialog(contex); 

You can design your layout as you like.

You can add this layout to your dialog by dialog.setContentView(R.layout.popupview);//popup view is the layout you created

then you can access its content (textviews, etc.) by using findViewById method

TextView txt = (TextView)dialog.findViewById(R.id.textbox); 

you can add any text here. the text can be stored in the String.xml file in res\values.

txt.setText(getString(R.string.message)); 

then finally show the pop up menu

dialog.show(); 

more information http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Dialog.html