Blur iOS 7 on Android

Question

I am working on a new Android application designed in a really flat style. I want to have a DialogAlert that appears on a blurry background. The effect is similar to the control center in this photo (do not write about the NDA, this photo is available on the Apple website):

Is it possible? If so, then the most important question is: how?

M.

Answer 1

Yes it is possible, you need to use something called renderscript. so you need a bitmap from the view, this can be done using the following code.

View v // target view to be blurred v.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true); Bitmap screenshot = Bitmap.createBitmap(v.getDrawingCache()); 

Now use renderscript to get the blurry bitmap shown here. http://blog.neteril.org/blog/2013/08/12/blurring-images-on-android/ and draw it in your view.

Answer 2

Yes it is possible. Instead of creating a dialogue, creating and acting in the manifest, add android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog" to your activity, as shown below:

 <activity android:name=".Activity" android:label="@string/title_activity" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="example.package" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> </intent-filter> </activity> 

Answer 3

It can be done, but there is no quick and easy way to do it. Check out our BlurMask filter in the Android or Android developer documentation for how to blur / glass / frost the current activity for some suggested steps.

Answer 4

Create a blurry bitmap in Photoshop and set it as the Activity / Dialog background image.