Window Management

WM Introduction

Android Window management comprises of three components Window, Window Manager, Window Manager Service (WMS)

1. Window is employee.
2. Window Manager is the manager who manages this employee
3. Window Manager Service is the ultimate boss and the Window Manager Service instructs the window manager to run the APIs.

The relation

Window

Window Management Properties

Company rules = Window Properties

LayoutParams

• Understanding the property of window can help you to understand the internal principles of window management

There are many kinds of properties of window and there are three kinds which are closely related to application development

They are the type of the window, the flag of the window and the keyboard related properties or the SoftInput properties.

Window Z-Order

Window Flags

window.addFlags()

Window SoftInput - Keyboard