Question: I want to use an **`activity as dialog`** and i made the theme of the activity as dialog & i succeed.
but
i have the problem here is when i click outside of the activity 
its automatically get closed & the previous activity get started..

i tried a thing to make transparent parent layout it does not look like a dialog..

i want to use this activity to create new account in my application as it has only 3 fields so in tablet it looks large space unused... so i want to use activity as dialog.....

thenx in advance...!!!
examples will be appreciated..!!!!!

Answer: 
try with following property 

```
    this.setFinishOnTouchOutside(false);

```
to Start activity as dialog I defined:

```
<activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog" />

```

Now when I `startActivity()` it displays like a dialog and parent activity displays behind it. I want a Button which when clicked Dialog gets dismissed and parent activity should display without refreshing the page.

Create an activity as we usually create it.

Also check [CustomDialogActivity.java on android.com](http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/CustomDialogActivity.html)

I think you should create activity as a dialog, it helps.

This way, you can set style and theme for your activity.