Android close dialog after 5 seconds?

Question

I'm working on an accesibility app. When the user wants to leave the app I show a dialog where he has to confirm he wants to leave, if he doesn't confirm after 5 seconds the dialog should close automatically (since the user probably opened it accidentally). This is similar to what happens on Windows when you change the screen resolution (an alert appears and if you don't confirm it, it reverts to the previous configuration).

This is how I show the dialog:

AlertDialog.Builder dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setTitle("Leaving launcher").setMessage("Are you sure you want to leave the launcher?");
            dialog.setPositiveButton("Confirm", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                    exitLauncher();
                }
            });
            dialog.create().show();

How can I close the dialog 5 seconds after showing it?

Answer 1

final AlertDialog.Builder dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setTitle("Leaving launcher").setMessage("Are you sure you want to leave the launcher?");
dialog.setPositiveButton("Confirm", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
        exitLauncher();
    }
});     
final AlertDialog alert = dialog.create();
alert.show();

// Hide after some seconds
final Handler handler  = new Handler();
final Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        if (alert.isShowing()) {
            alert.dismiss();
        }
    }
};

alert.setOnDismissListener(new DialogInterface.OnDismissListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
        handler.removeCallbacks(runnable);
    }
});

handler.postDelayed(runnable, 10000);

Answer 2

Use CountDownTimer to achieve.

      final AlertDialog.Builder dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
            .setTitle("Leaving launcher").setMessage(
                    "Are you sure you want to leave the launcher?");
       dialog.setPositiveButton("Confirm",
            new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                     exitLauncher();

                }
            });
    final AlertDialog alert = dialog.create();
    alert.show();

    new CountDownTimer(5000, 1000) {

        @Override
        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void onFinish() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            alert.dismiss();
        }
    }.start();

Answer 3

This is the code, refer this link:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // get button
        Button btnShow = (Button)findViewById(R.id.showdialog);
        btnShow.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            //on click listener
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(v.getContext());
                builder.setTitle("How to close alertdialog programmatically");
                builder.setMessage("5 second dialog will close automatically");
                builder.setCancelable(true);

                final AlertDialog closedialog= builder.create();

                closedialog.show();

                final Timer timer2 = new Timer();
                timer2.schedule(new TimerTask() {
                    public void run() {
                        closedialog.dismiss(); 
                        timer2.cancel(); //this will cancel the timer of the system
                    }
                }, 5000); // the timer will count 5 seconds....

            }
        });
    }
}

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Answer 4

Late, but I thought this might be useful for anyone using RxJava in their application.

RxJava comes with an operator called .timer() which will create an Observable which will fire onNext() only once after a given duration of time and then call onComplete(). This is very useful and avoids having to create a Handler or Runnable.

More information on this operator can be found in the ReactiveX Documentation

// Wait afterDelay milliseconds before triggering call
Subscription subscription = Observable
        .timer(5000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) // 5000ms = 5s
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
        .subscribe(new Action1<Long>() {
            @Override
            public void call(Long aLong) {
                // Remove your AlertDialog here
            }
        });

You can cancel behavior triggered by the timer by unsubscribing from the observable on a button click. So if the user manually closes the alert, call subscription.unsubscribe() and it has the effect of canceling the timer.