I'm somewhat new to android programming and writing a game, with most of the game displayed in a SurfaceView, but when a user performs certain actions in the SurfaceView, I'd like to be able to slide up another view from the bottom to give the user some options, without completely covering the SurfaceView and still allowing the user to interact with it. Since it seems I can't just add another View on top of the SurfaceView directly, how can I accomplish this? Thanks for any help.