The situation is this. I have a subclass of activity at the end of a long inheritance chain that I cannot change. so I cannot make my activity extend FragmentActivity. I wish to display dialogs without leaking them when rotations and such happen.
Google suggested mainly the (now deprecated) dismissDialog(int). The deprecation messege suggests using fragments for dialogs. which makes sense. But as I said I cannot extend FragmentActivity and so cannot get the fragmet manager to launch my dialog fragment. I'm also targeting min sdk 9 and would like to avoid using deprecated methods.
One solution I thought of was calling start for result on a dummy FragmentActivity to show my dialogFragment. but that seems to defeat the porpuse of dialogs entirely.
Is there any hope at all ? Can I somehow launch a dialog fragment from a non fragment activity ? Can I show and dismiss dialogs in a non deprecated way ? Any other alternative I missed ?
Well I would advice you to fix everything and extend FragmentActivity. But Anyway since can not be done without a FragmentActivity, here is a work-around
Create a FragmentActivity that is invisible (pretty easy with a translucent theme)
Start this activity to handle dialogs inside it.
Finish it when dialogs are dismissed or so.
I've finally procedded to manually handle my dialogs. which means:
Dialog currentdialog; // holds the current open dialog
#Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState (Bundle outState){
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
...
if(currentdialog!=null){
currentdialog.dismiss();
}
}
public void makeDialog(){
AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
// set some of the dialog fields
currentdialog = alert.create();
currentdialog.show();
}
It will work:
CustomFieldsDialog customDialog = new
CustomFieldsDialog();
customDialog.show(getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager(),
"CustomFieldsDialog");
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I have an Activity that I have already implemented sometime ago.
It involves around making a in app purchase, so all the logic is relatively self contained. it doesn't need to care about anything else.
Now, i wish to make that Activity to optionally show up in a dialog in some other activity. Is there a quick way to do that? I still need to keep the old behavior however, where the activity show up as a regular screen.
So is there someway that I could launch the activity with that make it show up as a dialog?
Thanks
You cant show activity as dialog.
Your options are:
1: Open the other activity with some boolean extra like "showDialog", true
Intent intent = new Intent(this, OtherActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("showDialog", true);
and in the other activity in (for example) onCreate:
Boolean showDialog = getIntent().getExtras().getBoolean("showDialog");
if (showDialog) {
// Code to show dialog
}
2: Create a DialogFragment and show it in your original activity. This custom DialogFragment you can use on both activities
https://guides.codepath.com/android/Using-DialogFragment
Probably your cleanest option depending on how complex your Activity is, is to create a new DialogFragment based on your current activity.
A DialogFragment is basically a Fragment, so has a relatively similar set of lifecycle callbacks to your Activity so it shouldn't be too difficult to re-work as a DialogFragment.
If the in-app purchase framework has specific callback requirements with an Activity then you will need to take that into account.
Another separate option would be to mock the appearance of a Dialog, by creating an Activity that may be transparent around the border of the main content.
Just Inflate the layout one button click on onCreate Method.
WhAT I WILL SUGGEST IS try alert box and in place of normal layout inflate you activity layout .
these might help
The easiest way to do that is to apply a dialog theme to the activity:
<activity android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Dialog" />
Or in the code:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
setTheme(R.style.Theme_AppCompat_Dialog);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.test);
}
You can customize parameters of the theme in styles.xml, e.g. dim enabled/disabled, click outside behavior.
The crucial point is to perform setTheme() before super.onCreate(), because Theme is immutable, once set through super.onCreate() it cannot be mutated later.
I have a DialogFragment that I launch when a user taps a menu item on the ActionBar. Everything about the Dialog functions properly - it launches just fine and it does everything I've set it up to do. Unfortunately, as soon as I rotate my device, the DialogFragment disappears.
This seemed to be a common problem back in 2012 - I've scoured StackOverflow and tried all of the common fixes that have been posted in the last couple of years. This SO post in particular summarizes all of the potential fixes that have been proposed:
Set up the DialogFragment to use the newInstance() paradigm
Add setRetainInstance(true) to the DialogFragment's onCreate()
Add a workaround to onDestroyView() to address a potential bug in the support library
Despite implementing everything above, the DialogFragment refuses to stick around after device rotation.
Here's how I launch the DialogFragment from the Activity:
DialogKanjiLookup dialog = DialogKanjiLookup.newInstance(gSearchView.getQuery());
dialog.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "dialogKanjiLookup");
Here is the DialogFragment's newInstance():
public DialogKanjiLookup() {}
public static DialogKanjiLookup newInstance(CharSequence searchTerm)
{
DialogKanjiLookup dialog = new DialogKanjiLookup();
Bundle args = new Bundle();
args.putCharSequence(BUNDLE_SEARCH, searchTerm);
dialog.setArguments(args);
return dialog;
}
Here's the dialog's `onCreateDialog():
#Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
// Specify a layout for the dialog
LayoutInflater inflater = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();
View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.dialog_kanjilookup, null);
// SNIP
// ...Handle savedInstanceState, set up various Listeners and adapters...
// SNIP
// Create the actual dialog
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
// Customize the dialog
builder.setTitle(R.string.dialog_kanji_lookup_title);
builder.setIcon(R.drawable.kanji_lookup);
builder.setPositiveButton(R.string.menu_search, btnSearchListener);
builder.setNegativeButton(R.string.cancel, null);
builder.setView(layout);
// Force the dialog to take up as much space as it can
Dialog dialog = builder.create();
dialog.show();
dialog.getWindow().setLayout(WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
// Display the dialog
return dialog;
}
There's only one instance of DialogFragment.dismiss() called from within the fragment but that's only triggered when the user taps one of the dialog's buttons, so I've ruled that out. Why does my DialogFragment still disappear after rotation? I'm all but pulling my hair out over this, it worked fine until sometime after I implemented a Navigation Drawer. Could that be a part of the problem?
EDIT: False alarm, I discovered that my answer wasn't the solution! The problem reappeared after I finished moving all of my Fragments and Activities away from using the Support Libraries.
I did discover that this problem only exists in Activities in which the content fragment has not been declared statically in the Activity's layout. That is, if I have a <FrameLayout> defined in XML and use fragmentManager.beginTransaction().replace(R.id.content_frame, frag, tag).commit(); to load a fragment, any DialogFragments launched in that activity fail to reload when the device has been rotated.
Here's a screen recording that demonstrates the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psK0pzMn6oc
After some experimentation I discovered a solution. The Activity that launches the dialog needs to extend android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity, and the DialogFragment needs to extend android.support.v4.app.DialogFragment.
Then, getSupportFragmentManager() must be called when launching the DialogFragment:
CustomDialog dialog = CustomDialog.newInstance();
dialog.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "customDialog");
This should retain the dialog during rotation. There was no need to use setRetainInstance(true) in the dialog itself.
Mind you, this only works in instances in which an FragmentActivity calls a DialogFragment. I'm still trying to suss out a way to preserve a dialog that gets called via a Fragment instead.
I started using DialogFragment, because they are working nicely through orientation changes, and stuff. But there is nasty problem I encountered.
I have AsyncTask that shows progress DialogFragment and dismisses it onPostExecute. Everything works fine, except when onPostExecute happens while application is in background (after pressing Home button, for example). Then I got this error on DialogFragment dismissing - "Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState". Doh. Regular dialogs works just fine. But not FragmentDialog.
So I wonder, what is the proper way of dismissing DialogFragment while application is in background? I haven't really worked with Fragments a lot, so I think that I'm just missing something.
DialogFragment has a method called dismissAllowingStateLoss()
This is what I did (df == dialogFragment):
Make sure that you call the dialog this way:
df.show(getFragmentManager(), "DialogFragment_FLAG");
When you want to dismis the dialog make this check:
if (df.isResumed()){
df.dismiss();
}
return;
Make sure that you have the following in the onResume() method of your fragment (not df)
#Override
public void onResume(){
Fragment f = getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("DialogFragment_FLAG");
if (f != null) {
DialogFragment df = (DialogFragment) f;
df.dismiss();
}
super.onResume();
}
This way, the dialog will be dismissed if it's visible.. if not visible the dialog is going to be dismisded next the fragment becomes visible (onResume)...
This is what I had to do to achieve what you want:
I have a Fragment activity on which i was showing a dialog fragment named fragment_RedemptionPayment which is globally declared at the top. The following code dismisses the DialogFragment if it was showing before the activity goes in background and comes back in foreground.
#Override
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
if(fragment_RedemptionPayment.isVisible()){
fragment_RedemptionPayment.dismiss();
}
}
Another new way of checking the state before calling dismiss is this:
if(!dialog.isStateSaved){
dialog.dismiss()
} else {
//Change the UI to suit your functionality
}
In this way its is checked that state is saved or not, basically on pause and onSaveInstanceState has been called.
For Java you can use isStateSaved()
A solution that might work is setting Fragment.setRetainInstance(true) in your dialogfragment, but that's not the prettiest of fixes.
Sometimes I have noticed that I have to queue up my dialog actions to let the framework restore the state first. If you can get hold of the current Looper (Activity.getMainLooper()) and wrap that in a Handler you could try passing your dismissal to the back of the queue by posting a runnable on that queue.
I often end up using a separate fragment that it retaininstance(true) that has a ResultReceiver. So i pass on that result receiver to my jobs and handle callbacks in its onReceive (often as a router for other receivers). But that might be a bit more work than it is worth if you are using async tasks.
I'm rewriting an existing app for Honeycomb and I've run into a problem. In the existing app, we create the an AlertDialog with default title and message values, then replace them later if needed. To replace them, we use setTitle() and setMessage():
AlertDialog dialog = getDialog();
if (some condition) {
dialog.setTitle(R.string.error1);
dialog.setMessage(getResources().getString(R.string.error1_msg));
}
else {
dialog.setTitle(R.string.error2);
dialog.setMessage(getResources().getString(R.string.error2_msg));
}
However, now that we are using DialogFragment, there is no method for setTitle() or setMessage(), so we can't change it after it has been created. Is there a workaround for this case, or are we out of luck?
You have to extend the DialogFragment to provide content. See the documentation for examples and other options.
I have a class that extends android.app.Dialog, the layout is done in an xml file, and the setup (button listeners, etc) is done on the onCreate method. My problem is that whenever the dialog is displayed, then dismissed, and displayed again, the Editable TextViews are still populated with the information that was displayed previously. What is the common way to clear these text fields? Remember - this is a separate class that extends Dialog - so there is no 'onDialogCreate' like Activity has.
Or, perhaps I am extending the wrong class? There is just a lot of processing being done, and do not want to have all the code in the main Activity. I would like it to be in a separate Class. I tried to extend AlertDialog, but it does not create the border like Dialog does. Any help would be great.
The dialog is shown via the Activity:
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
switch(id){
case DIALOG_NEW_SAFE:
return(new NewSafeDialog(this));
default:
return(null);
}
}
onCreateDialog(..) caches the dialog which means the same instance is reused.
3 ways to fix the undesired behavior off my head:
Override onPrepareDialog(..), use findViewById(..) to get whatever you want to clear, clear it.
Don't rely on managed dialogs at all, do new NewSafeDialog(this).show() each time you want to show the dialog.
Add onCancelListener(..), onDismissListener(..) inside your custom dialog that would call a method to clear itself.
The good way to create a dialog is by using showDialog() as you did so don't change it.
The good and easy way to force deletion of a dialog in order to make your creation code recalled again is:
void removeDialog (int id)
So if you simply do the following, it's gonna work ;)
removeDialog(DIALOG_NEW_SAFE);
showDialog(DIALOG_NEW_SAFE);
Try clearing the text in the constructor of the NewSafeDialog i.e. your dialog class.