Overlay over DialogFragment

[rafalzawadzki]

I have tried using the showcase over a custom DialogFragment, but unfortunately it appears under the popup. It may be caused by the activity passed into the Builder instead of dialog context.
Do you have any idea how to accomplish this?

[Senth]

Hi, If I have time I might look into it tomorrow, otherwise on Tuesday. :)

If you can't wait—I know the feeling of waiting for a bug to be fixed—and come up with a solution please submit it either as a pull request or here in a comment here :)

[Senth]

The problem seems to be that dialogs adds their layout a bit differently. I haven't found a solution yet and I have to continue with my own work for now.

What you could do is to clone a local copy of this repository. I've added another example with an alert dialog popup in Target Example. So if you can make that example work it's solved.

You should only have to change the _showNow() method in MaterialShowcaseView.java.

I found some suggestions here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/29436889/1412681 that might fix the problem.

[Senth]

I'd also be vary in general of using the showcase feature on Dialogs. You probably have a good reason. In any case you can check Google's own guidelines here and see if you can design it differently.

Material Dialog Guidelines
Material Feature Discovery Guidelines

[rafalzawadzki]

Hey @Senth, thanks for looking into the problem and providing with all this valuable information. I will check out your suggestions and report if I come up with any solution.