How to overlay a button programmically?

Question

What I would like to accomplish is to, at runtime, place a button in the middle of the screen, as the very top layer, overlaying anything below it. (It's not big, so it will not completely cover the screen, just whatever happens to be below it.)

I looked at creating a custom dialog, however that blocks all other user input. I want all of the views below this new button to act normally and respond to the user, but I just want to add (and later remove) the button above everything.

Hopefully that makes sense. I'm just wondering what might be the best approach to look into?

Thanks

Answer 1

Use a FrameLayout, with the button as it's 2nd child. Set it to GONE when you don't want it visible.