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Android: overlay app that can grab text from the underlay app?

Is it possible to have an app overlay on another app and be able to grab text from it. If I had a browser opened and have an app that can grab text from the website and placed into text to speech, is this possible or is there something similar to this?

TalkBack is an app which uses android accessibility services to read out the text underneath when a user touches it. So you can also make your own accessibility service.

How to use Android Speech to text as Service?

In android i am trying to develop an application where I can open messages or make a call etc. through voice. But I want my application to keep running in background, how can I convert the Google speech to text API into a service ? I will provide my work progress only if you need it, as posting it did not help me in previous questions. I have taken help from this link so far I will share my code if you want. http://www.androidhive.info/2014/07/android-speech-to-text-tutorial/

Using google speech recognition on android wear without showing specific ui

This is my first question here on stackoverflow, so sorry if i am doing something wrong.
I have an app on android wear, where the user shall select an item from a list.
I want to enable the user to select the item via voice commands. I managed to do it as suggested in the google documentation, but i have to implement a button to start speech recognition, and it will show up as a fullscreen activity.
I want the user to be able to see the list while speech recognition is active. Is there any solution for this?
EDIT: I might have found the solution i was looking for. It is the speech recognizer, which seems to be able to do just what i want. I will have to dig into that and will update this post if it is the solution.

Android create custom voice recognizer

I want to create a custom voice recognizer and design it the way i want.
This is my current one:
http://i.imgur.com/FhHEOZR.png?1
I want to create a custom one as in this app:
http://i.imgur.com/Alc3ggJ.png?1
I saw few apps with this custom voice recognizer such as indigo, dragon,aivc etc.
I tried google developer solution for SpeechRecognizer but it didn't work for me.
Any help please?

From this question: How can I use speech recognition without the annoying dialog in android phones
Use the SpeechRecognizer interface. Your app needs to have the
RECORD_AUDIO permission, and you can then create a SpeechRecognizer,
give it a RecognitionListener and then call its startListening method.
You will get callbacks to the listener when the speech recognizer is
ready to begin listening for speech and as it receives speech and
converts it to text.
And then use whatever layout you want, and even animate it.

Visit:
Android( RecognitionListener) live speech to text preview
also you can visit:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/RecognitionListener
maybe it can be useful to you
By the way, you said in your comment that you don't fully understand.Recognition listener is a listener that runs in the background. In this way, there will be no unnecessary dialogs. I'm trying to automatically add subtitles to the video that opens, so I'm trying to do something like you want to do, but I haven't been able to do it yet.

Custom component which displays voice recognition button if available

I'd like to create a custom component which supports voice recognition. It will primarily be an extended EditText which should show the microphone button for voice recognition if it is available. I wanted to to look at the search app-widget on the homescreen but I don't find it in the source.
This is intended to use the voice recognition as some sort of dictation device, i.e. the user does not have to type but use his voice instead.
So could anyone please point me in some direction?
Thanks in advance,
Steff

I think what u basically want to a button show/hide which can be controlled at the time of onCreate call. That should do ur work. Why would u need a component as such?