Should I use a dialog or a popup window as the initial login screen?

Question

Quite a simple one but I don's see any documentation anywhere. The only place I have found it is in developer.android there is an example for a login in a dialog. As I said it is for the initial login of my app so it needs to be full-screen which is an issue for dialogs as it doesn't seem possible without using an older (pre-Ice cream sandwich I think) theme which includes older looking editTexts. Any guidance on the matter would be great, thanks.

(Below is a comparison of the two types of edit text, I am forced to use the first on the login page to allow a dialog to be full-screen)

EditTexts

Can you tell the difference between a Dialog and a `popup window`? — Phantômaxx, Jan 29 '15 at 18:47
if I could get the dialog to be fullscreen using a current sdk I dont think so. — Jack.Ramsden, Jan 29 '15 at 18:50
How to set a Dialog in full screen: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6329360/how-to-set-dialog-to-show-with-full-screen — Phantômaxx, Jan 29 '15 at 18:57
I have used this solution but it forces an older api that makes the editTexts look awfull and inconsistent. — Jack.Ramsden, Jan 29 '15 at 18:59
The image in my question shows the edit text that you HAVE to use if you use thay method of making a dialog fullscreen where as rhe one below it is what I would like to use. — Jack.Ramsden, Jan 29 '15 at 19:07
Still I don't understand the matter... `android:layout_width="match parent"` and you are happily in full width. There are different answers to that question. — Phantômaxx, Jan 29 '15 at 19:18
That doesnt work. Also I just want to kniw what the convention/ general consensus is on the matter — Jack.Ramsden, Jan 29 '15 at 19:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 29 '15 at 18:59

You may have a look at DialogFragment to do dialog customizations. For edittext, you can always set custom borders by creating a drawable .xml and setting it as background in Edittext.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:thickness="0dp" android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke android:width="2dp"
       android:color="#00cc33"/>
<corners android:radius="10dp"/>
<padding android:left="10dp"
       android:top="5dp"   
       android:right="10dp"
       android:bottom="5dp"/>
</shape>

In your layout xml,

<EditText
  ...
...
android:background="@drawable/my_edittext_border"/>

I realise that I can customise the edit texts but I would like to use the android default across my whole app. — Jack.Ramsden, Jan 29 '15 at 19:11

Should I use a dialog or a popup window as the initial login screen?

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