How to display alert from ViewModel

Question

I want to display alert from ViewModel.

problem: The name DisplayAlert does not exist in the current context

How to do that? Below is my code.

-- XAML
<Button x:Name="BtnLogin" Command="{Binding LoginCommand}" BackgroundColor="Green" TextColor="White" WidthRequest="150" HeightRequest="60"  Text="Login" />


--- ViewModel :

class LoginViewModel : ViewModelBase
    {
       

        private string _username;

        public string Username
        {
            get { return _username; }
            set
            {
                _username = value;
                OnPropertyChanged();
            }     
         }

        private string _password;

        public string Password
        {
            get { return _password; }
            set
            {
                _password = value;
                OnPropertyChanged();
            }
        }

        public LoginViewModel()
        {          

        }

        public Command LoginCommand
        {
            get
            {
                return new Command(ValidateUser);
            }

        }     

       async void ValidateUser()
        {
            if (_username.Length > 1 && _password.Length > 1)
            {
               //await DisplayAlert("Login", "Login Success", "Ok");
            //--Update:

                UserDialogs.Instance.Alert("Login Success", "Login", "OK");
            }
            else
            {
               // display invalid credential
            }
        }

Update There are a) Acr.UserDialogs V6.5.1 b) Acr.XamForms.UserDialog v5.0.0

I am using the older version which is (b) since I m using PCL .

I did import it and change the code to use it as above. But there is err msg: using Acr.UserDialogs;

Err Msg:

Java.Lang.NullPointerException: Exception of type 'Java.Lang.NullPointerException' was thrown.
  at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw () [0x0000c] in <3fd174ff54b146228c505f23cf75ce71>:0 
  at Java.Interop.JniEnvironment+InstanceMethods.CallNonvirtualVoidMethod (Java.Interop.JniObjectReference instance, Java.Interop.JniObjectReference type, Java.Interop.JniMethodInfo method, Java.Interop.JniArgumentValue* args) [0x00089] in <bd30a18775d94dc8b6263aecd1ca9077>:0 
  at Java.Interop.JniPeerMembers+JniInstanceMethods.FinishCreateInstance (System.String constructorSignature, Java.Interop.IJavaPeerable self, Java.Interop.JniArgumentValue* parameters) [0x0004f] in <bd30a18775d94dc8b6263aecd1ca9077>:0 
  at Android.App.AlertDialog+Builder..ctor (Android.Content.Context context) [0x0007a] in <d855bac285f44dda8a0d8510b679b1e2>:0 
  at Acr.UserDialogs.Builders.AlertBuilder.Build (Android.App.Activity activity, Acr.UserDialogs.AlertConfig config) [0x0000d] in <addbf2648c204949b40c582bd49b7ddd>:0 
  at Acr.UserDialogs.UserDialogsImpl.Alert (Acr.UserDialogs.AlertConfig config) [0x00038] in <addbf2648c204949b40c582bd49b7ddd>:0 
  at Acr.UserDialogs.AbstractUserDialogs.Alert (System.String message, System.String title, System.String okText) [0x00024] in <ec0104dbfc974343b668f7b28f49a1ab>:0 
  at BookingNow.ViewModel.LoginViewModel.ValidateUser () [0x00026] in C:\Users\Edward\documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\BookingNow\BookingNow\BookingNow\ViewModel\LoginViewModel.cs:88 
  --- End of managed Java.Lang.NullPointerException stack trace ---
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at android.app.AlertDialog.resolveDialogTheme(AlertDialog.java:143)
    at android.app.AlertDialog$Builder.<init>(AlertDialog.java:360)
    at md5270abb39e60627f0f200893b490a1ade.ButtonRenderer_ButtonClickListener.n_onClick(Native Method)
    at md5270abb39e60627f0f200893b490a1ade.ButtonRenderer_ButtonClickListener.onClick(ButtonRenderer_ButtonClickListener.java:30)
    at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4476)
    at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:18787)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:730)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:176)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5493)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1209)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1025)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Thanks

Answer 1

1. Create an interface:

public interface IMessageService
{
    Task ShowAsync(string message);
}

2. Implement the interface:

public class MessageService : IMessageService
{
    public async Task ShowAsync(string message)
    {
        await App.Current.MainPage.DisplayAlert("YourApp", message, "Ok");
    }
}

3. Inject the dependency service into App class:

public partial class App : Application
{
    public App()
    {
        //Add the next line
        DependencyService.Register<ViewModels.Services.IMessageService, Views.Services.MessageService>();
        InitializeComponent();
        MainPage = new MainPage();
    }
}

4. Initialize it in your ViewModel and use:

public class YourViewModel 
{
    private readonly Services.IMessageService _messageService;

    public YourViewModel()
    {
        this._messageService = DependencyService.Get<Services.IMessageService>();

        //Show the dialog with next line
        _messageService.ShowAsync("Hi!!!");
    }
}