Show Yes/No-Dialog instead of OK/Cancel

Question

I hate the OK/Cancel dialogs, because if my application ask somebody if (s)he really want to do something you should never answer with "Cancel".

A little example:

final AlertDialog.Builder b = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
b.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert);
b.setTitle("Hello World");
b.setMessage("Did you do your homework?");
b.setPositiveButton(android.R.string.yes, null);
b.setNegativeButton(android.R.string.no, null);
b.show();

Is it possible that the constants "yes" and "no" really means "yes" and "no" with localization? Or have I do this explicit in my string resource and can't use global constants. So I replace the two lines with:

b.setPositiveButton("Yes", null);
b.setNegativeButton("No", null);

(or the resources instead of constants here)

Sincerely xZise

Answer 1

Be aware that the contents of these text resources in English are actually "OK" and "Cancel", not Yes and No. So if you need Yes and No, you must use your own string resources. See for example http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3713 and http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/30b589fa9aca185a

Answer 2

A quick google search reveals that there are several apps that do exactly that, including Google's own My Tracks app, so I'd say it's safe to use android.R.string.yes.

Example: http://mytracks.googlecode.com/hg/MyTracks/src/com/google/android/apps/mytracks/io/backup/ExternalFileBackup.java?r=5ebff81c1c25d9600efb5d88eecc3e068ec22ae9