This is because the popup window does not respond to onTouch or onKey events unless it has a background that != null. Check out some code I wrote to help with this. In the basic case you can to call PopupWindow#setBackgroundDrawable(new BitmapDrawable()) to force it to act the way you expect. You won’t need your … 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
Please try to set setBackgroundDrawable on PopupWindow that should close the window if you touch outside of it.
You can do that by adding your view directly to the keyWindow: UIView *myView = /* <- Your custom view */; UIWindow *currentWindow = [UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow; [currentWindow addSubview:myView]; UPDATE — For Swift 4.1 and above let currentWindow: UIWindow? = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow currentWindow?.addSubview(myView) UPDATE for iOS13 and above keyWindow is deprecated. You should use the following: UIApplication.shared.windows.first(where: … Read more