How to create ProgressDialog without obscuring the background window - android

I've got a little problem. When I use the showDialog() method of my Activity, it generates a perfect ProgressDialog, but the activity on the background (as the dafault behaviour) and becomes darker.
How can I avoid the darkening of my activity?

Try this:
Window window = dialog.getWindow();
window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DIM_BEHIND);

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In an android application, I want to display a Dialog on screen and in the same time to allow user to click on the application's UI when the the Dialog is open
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I have one Activity which displayed some Dialog boxes and Progress bars.
This activity does not have call to setContentView as this Activity does not have Screen Layout. It has been just used for displaying Dialogs and progress bar dialogs.
Now what happens is that Activity Displays Dialog box along with the Blank Activity Window on back of the Dialog, So i want to hide make it transparent so it will look like we are just displaying Dialog.
Thank,
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Use this attribute for your activity
<activity android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Translucent">
This will make activity background transparent.
In your activity tag(in manifest) which is displaying progressbar or dialog
put this above attribute android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Translucent
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In your manifest file add to the activity element this attribute: android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Dialog"
Copied from background - Android: make everything around dialog darker
All you need to do is play around with the dimAmount field in the
WindowManager.LayoutParams:
WindowManager.LayoutParams lp = myDialog.getWindow().getAttributes();
lp.dimAmount = 0.7f

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