As answered by an Android developer. If the inflated view doesn’t have a background set, or the popup window itself doesn’t have a background set (or has a transparent background) then you won’t get a shadow. which was my case and seems to be yours, since you are not using setBackgroundDrawable. This worked for me … Read more
I created a working example based on this Google Groups post. To create a simple working PopupWindow, you’ll need to do the following: Create a layout XML which describes the View that will be rendered within the PopupWindow. Invoke the PopupWindow by inflating the layout XML, and assign the appropriate “parent view” to the pop-up. … Read more
I think the problem is you have provided only one set of animation style. But actually a PopupWindow requires two animations. One will be used by it when window is shown and other one to hide the window. This is how you should do it, 1) Create Two Different set of animations. say, popup_show.xml and … Read more
How to make a simple Android popup window This is a fuller example. It is a supplemental answer that deals with creating a popup window in general and not necessarily the specific details of the OP’s problem. (The OP asks for a cancel button, but this is not necessary because the user can click anywhere … Read more
The question was about the Popupwindow class, yet everybody has given answers that use the Dialog class. Thats pretty much useless if you need to use the Popupwindow class, because Popupwindow doesn’t have a getWindow() method. I’ve found a solution that actually works with Popupwindow. It only requires that the root of the xml file … Read more