Android - Application wide notifications

Question

What I am looking for is a good example (if possible) of a application wide notification alert dialog window. What I am hoping to do is register an intent filter on the application level, and anytime a broadcast is received, it will show my alert above any fragment, or activity in my application.

Right now I am having to implement it on each activity, while not a big deal seems messy, I was hoping there was a better way.

I had tried to do it once before in the application but the AlertDialog requires the activity context and not the application context.

Thanks Brian

Answer 1

I've previously achieved this by declaring a broadcast receiver in a base class from which all my activities are derived.