Android Dialog, keep dialog open when button is pressed

Question

I would like to keep my dialog open when I press a button. At the moment it's closing.

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);  builder.setMessage("Are you sure you want to exit?")     .setCancelable(false)    .setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {             MyActivity.this.finish();        }    })    .setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {             dialog.cancel();        }    }); AlertDialog alert = builder.create(); 

Answer 1

Yes, you can. You basically need to:

1. Create the dialog with DialogBuilder
2. show() the dialog
3. Find the buttons in the dialog shown and override their onClickListener

So, create a listener class:

class CustomListener implements View.OnClickListener {   private final Dialog dialog;    public CustomListener(Dialog dialog) {     this.dialog = dialog;   }    @Override   public void onClick(View v) {      // Do whatever you want here      // If you want to close the dialog, uncomment the line below     //dialog.dismiss();   } } 

Then when showing the dialog use:

AlertDialog dialog = dialogBuilder.create(); dialog.show(); Button theButton = dialog.getButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE); theButton.setOnClickListener(new CustomListener(dialog)); 

Remember, you need to show the dialog otherwise the button will not be findable. Also, be sure to change DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE to whatever value you used to add the button. Also note that when adding the buttons in the DialogBuilder you will need to provide onClickListeners - you can not add the custom listener in there, though - the dialog will still dismiss if you do not override the listeners after show() is called.

Answer 2

Thanks Sogger for your answer, but there is one change that we have to do here that is, before creating dialog we should set possitive button (and negative button if there is need) to AlertDialog as traditional way, thats it.

Referenced By Sogger.

Here is the sample example ...

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);         builder.setMessage("Test for preventing dialog close");         builder.setTitle("Test");          builder.setPositiveButton("OK", new OnClickListener() {              @Override             public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {                 // TODO Auto-generated method stub              }         });     builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new OnClickListener() {              @Override             public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {                 // TODO Auto-generated method stub              }         });          final AlertDialog dialog = builder.create();         dialog.show();         //Overriding the handler immediately after show is probably a better approach than OnShowListener as described below         dialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()               {                               @Override                   public void onClick(View v)                   {                       Boolean wantToCloseDialog = false;                       //Do stuff, possibly set wantToCloseDialog to true then...                       if(wantToCloseDialog)                           dialog.dismiss();                       //else dialog stays open. Make sure you have an obvious way to close the dialog especially if you set cancellable to false.                   }               });          dialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_NEGATIVE).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()           {                           @Override               public void onClick(View v)               {                   Boolean wantToCloseDialog = true;                   //Do stuff, possibly set wantToCloseDialog to true then...                   if(wantToCloseDialog)                       dialog.dismiss();                   //else dialog stays open. Make sure you have an obvious way to close the dialog especially if you set cancellable to false.               }           });