Android dialoginterface get inner dialog views

Question

I've a simple program to show a dialog, with a edittext view in it, and listen to positive/negative buttons, to perform a custom action in each (read that edittext and save its content to an activity variable).

The problem arises when I can't see any way to recover my current dialog from dialog interface (and then, I can't recover any view within dialog).

Probably it's a noob question, but after some google searches, I've no one answer to it.

My code is the following

LayoutInflater li = LayoutInflater.from(this); View myView = li.inflate(R.layout.my_layout, null);  AlertDialog.Builder cDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); cDialog.setView(myView); cDialog.setPositiveButton(R.string.start_download, new   DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {   @Override   public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {     //here the code to retrieve dialog   } }); cDialog.create(); 

Any clue about where can I find that?

Answer 1

You can retrieve the views from the Dialog in the onClick() with:

EditText edit = (EditText) ((AlertDialog) dialog).findViewById(R.id.the_id_of_view);