Already asked a similar question, yet without much luck.

Suppose I have a service and I need a view to pop up above it. In the same time, they both should be intractable, i.e. the user should be able to both click buttons within the view, as well as ones on the service in the background.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaH3r.jpg)

Is this in theory possible? If yes, how should I initialize that view?

Thanks!
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Services most definitely can have a user interface: Input methods are an obvious example. See <http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SoftKeyboard/index.html> for an example.
Services run in the background and do not have an UI. So you can not show something over a Service.

If you need a Service to notify user about something, then use [`Notification`](http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html).

Ayou could use a `Toast`, but I advise against it, as it can confuse users since it can pop-out over another app's activity.