Can't show a simple message in an Android App - android

I started developing Android apps today using Visual Studio 2015 and I'd like to know why I can't show an AlertDialog, because it throws me an exception about Android.Views.WindowManagerBadTokenException and I don't see where I'm mistaken..
private void Button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
((Button)sender).Text = string.Format("{0} clicks!", count++);
try
{
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this.ApplicationContext);
builder.SetTitle("This is a title..");
builder.SetMessage("This is a message..");
AlertDialog ad = builder.Create();
ad.Show();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{ ((Button)sender).Text = ex.Message; }
}

First of all, if you just started developing for Android, USE ANDROID STUDIOS unless you have a really really good reason to develop in Visual Studios. Android Studios is the best IDE I've ever used and I highly recommend it.
But, if you would like to stick with Visual Studios, try this code:
AlertDialog alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this).create();
alertDialog.setTitle("Alert");
alertDialog.setMessage("Alert message to be shown");
alertDialog.setButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_NEUTRAL, "OK",
new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
dialog.dismiss();
}
});
alertDialog.show();
Pulled from this question. Maybe it's because your .Create() and .Show() should be all lower case instead of camel case.

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I have a if then statement. If the if then statement is true, I want an Android system to fire a basic alert with one button that says ok.
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"Ok",
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public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
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I am trying to display a native Alertdialog as soon as the app loads, but an ad is showing before that. I want to make sure this Alertdialog is showing as the first thing when the app loads, and when the Alertdialog is dismissed, the ads and everything else should load next.
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Here's what I have in code:
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{
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public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
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dialog.cancel();
}
});
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alert11.show();
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I couldn't find anything usefull on the internet about my problem. So my question is how do you do a good usage of Android's alert dialogs. Here is an example of code creating and showing an alert dialog just with the title "error", the text "you can't do that" and a "Ok" button :
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alertDialogBuilder.setMessage("You can't do that");
alertDialogBuilder.setCancelable(true);
alertDialogBuilder.setPositiveButton(
getResources().getString("ok"),
new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
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});
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alertDialogError.show();
But now, if I have many of this alert dialogs in my application, what should I do ?
Should I set the alertDialogBuilder as an attribute so each time I want to display an error message I can call his function setMessage() and then create() and then show() ?
Should I keep an already configured alertDialog for every single error message I have so I can just call theRightAlertDialog.show() to display my message ?
Something else ?
What's the good usage/cleanest way to do this for you ?
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public static void showErrorDialog(Context context, String message) {
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builder.setTitle("Error");
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builder.setCancelable(true);
builder.setPositiveButton(
getResources().getString("ok"),
new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
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}
});
builder.show();
}
}
Or you can use a DialogFragment which you can create with:
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I will say though, as a side note; if you are looking to change more than just a few fields for each of the dialogs (i.e. adding more parameters to the showErrorDialog method), then you probably should just stick to the Builder pattern. Considering that is what the Builder pattern is meant for.
Should I set the alertDialogBuilder as an attribute so each time I want to display an error message I can call his function setMessage() and then create() and then show() ?
If the title and the button functionality are the same for all of your alerts, than this would be the best strategy. Create a variable for the alertDialogBuilder, or even just the alertDialog itself, then change the message and show it each time.
Alternatively, you could create a method that builds the dialog, and takes in a string for the message text.

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Is this possible?
You can't change the text of the NullPointerException unless you develop your own Exception class and a SDK.
But for now this is what you can do.
try
{
// try to parse your json here
}
catch(NullPointerException npe)
{
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public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
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}
});
AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
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