Find the Window containing a View in Android

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Published on 2010-05-07T01:10:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 1:18 UTC
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I can't find a way to obtain a reference the Window containing an arbitrary View v. I found fromgetWindowToken, but I can't figure out how to use it? Does anyone know how?

Also, does anyone know why it returns an IBinder rather than a Window?

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