PopupWindow z ordering

Question

I play with menus using PopupWindow, which overlap EditText.

It works fine, except that my PopupWindow is overlapped by some items from EditText IME system (selection marks, Paste button).

My question is: how do I force z-ordering of my PopupWindow so that it appears above those decorations?

Here's image of what's happening. I need my PopupWindow (the menu) be drawn on top of everything, thus somehow tell WindowManager how to order windows. Thanks.

Answer 1

Found anwer myself.

Those decorations are normal PopupWindow-s, managed by EditText.

Z-ordering of any Window is defined by WindowManager.LayoutParams.type, actually it defines purpose of Window. Valid ranges are FIRST_SUB_WINDOW - LAST_SUB_WINDOW for a popup window.

App typically can't change "type" of PopupWindow, except of calling hidden function PopupWindow.setWindowLayoutType(int) using Java reflection, and setting desired window type.

Result:

EDIT: Code that does that:

  Method[] methods = PopupWindow.class.getMethods();
  for(Method m: methods){
     if(m.getName().equals("setWindowLayoutType")) {
        try{
           m.invoke(getPopupWindow(), WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_APPLICATION_SUB_PANEL);
        }catch(Exception e){
           e.printStackTrace();
        }
        break;
     }
  }

Answer 2

import android.support.v4.widget.PopupWindowCompat;

PopupWindowCompat.setWindowLayoutType(popupWindow, WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_APPLICATION_SUB_PANEL);

Answer 3

public void compatibleSetWindowLayoutType(int layoutType) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 23) {
        setWindowLayoutType(layoutType);
    } else {
        try {
            Class c = this.getClass();
            Method m = c.getMethod("setWindowLayoutType", Integer.TYPE);
            if(m != null) {
                m.invoke(this, layoutType);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
    }
}