Problems Creating A Popup Window In Android Activity

I'm trying to create a popup window that only appears the first time the application starts. I want it to display some text and have a button to close the popup. However, I'm havin

Solution 1:

To avoid BadTokenException, you need to defer showing the popup until after all the lifecycle methods are called (-> activity window is displayed):

findViewById(R.id.main_page_layout).post(new Runnable() {
   public void run() {
     pw.showAtLocation(findViewById(R.id.main_page_layout), Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
   }
});

Solution 2:

Solution provided by Kordzik will not work if you launch 2 activities consecutively:

startActivity(ActivityWithPopup.class);
startActivity(ActivityThatShouldBeAboveTheActivivtyWithPopup.class);

If you add popup that way in a case like this, you will get the same crash because ActivityWithPopup won't be attached to Window in this case.

More universal solusion is onAttachedToWindow and onDetachedFromWindow.

And also there is no need for postDelayed(Runnable, 100). Because this 100 millis does not guaranties anything

@OverridepublicvoidonAttachedToWindow() {
    super.onAttachedToWindow();
    Log.d(TAG, "onAttachedToWindow");

    showPopup();
}

@OverridepublicvoidonDetachedFromWindow() {
    super.onDetachedFromWindow();
    Log.d(TAG, "onDetachedFromWindow");

    popup.dismiss();
}

Solution 3:

The accepted answer did not work for me. I still received BadTokenException. So I just called the Runnable from a Handler with delay as such:

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        showPopup();
    }
}, 100);

Solution 4:

use class Context eg. MainActivity.this instead of getApplicationContext()

Solution 5:

There are two scenarios when this exception could occur. One is mentioned by kordzik. Other scenario is mentioned here: http://blackriver.to/2012/08/android-annoying-exception-unable-to-add-window-is-your-activity-running/

Make sure you handle both of them