Android - MediaController of VideoView within dialog appears behind the dialog

Question

I have a VideoView inside a custom dialog, and I am creating a media controller for the VideoView on the fly and assigning it to the VideoView in the code, however the controller doesn't actually appear over the video - it appears behind the dialog! Any idea how to get the controller above the video?

I created a static dialog helper class to help construct the custom dialogs:

public class DialogHelper {

    public static Dialog getVideoDialog(Context context, Uri videoLocation, boolean autoplay) {
        final Dialog dialog = getBaseDialog(context,true, R.layout.dialog_video);

        ((Activity)context).getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT);
        final VideoView videoHolder = (VideoView) dialog.findViewById(R.id.video_view);
        videoHolder.setVideoURI(videoLocation);
        //videoHolder.setRotation(90);
        MediaController mediaController =  new MediaController(context);
        videoHolder.setMediaController(mediaController);
        mediaController.setAnchorView(videoHolder);
        videoHolder.requestFocus();
        if(autoplay) {
            videoHolder.start();
        }
        videoHolder.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {

            @Override
            public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
                dialog.dismiss();

            }
        });
        return dialog;
    }


    /**
     * Creates a simple dialog box with as many buttons as you want
     * @param context The context of the dialog
     * @param cancelable whether the dialog can be closed/cancelled by the user
     * @param layoutResID the resource id of the layout you want within the dialog
     * 
     * @return the dialog
     */
    public static Dialog getBaseDialog(Context context, boolean cancelable, int layoutResID) {
        Dialog dialog = new Dialog(context, R.style.Theme_PopUpDialog);
        dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
        dialog.setCancelable(cancelable);
        dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(cancelable);
        dialog.setContentView(layoutResID);

        return dialog;
    }
}

So in my Activity i just have this to create my dialog:

Dialog videoDialog = DialogHelper.getVideoDialog(context, Uri.parse("http://commonsware.com/misc/test2.3gp"), true);
videoDialog.show();

Answer 1

I suggest that you need to use an Activity instead of a Dialog. Set your Activity theme to emulate a Dialog in the manifest.

Example - AndroidManifest.xml:

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"

Then, you will be able to display a VideoView as in the examples.