Disable Activity?

[MotoMusher]

This may just be a design issue for my app, but curious how best to resolve it.

I have an activity where users can type in text and there are lot's of imageviews that take actions. I have an icon on the page that opens up a camera I wrote. Clicking the icon opens up a new activity with panel that operates as a camera.

If the users clicks on the camera, the click goes through to the buttons underneath in the original activity.

Is there a way to only have the current activity active, or disable the activity underneath while the topmost activity is active?

 

[padvou]

Maybe cover the activity beneath with a panel and consume its events?

 

[MotoMusher]

Brilliant. Thanks! Just adding an empty click event to the camera panel did the trick.

I appreciate it.

 

[grant1842]

I haven't tried this myself but another way could be to add all in the views of the activity you want to disable into a main panel and then disable the panel.

Like I said I haven't tried this so I'm not sure if disabling the main panel will disable the child views as well.

 

[Erel]

It is usually better to add another activity. Otherwise you need to handle all kinds of cases: orientation changes, back key and others.