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Build dialog one after one in a loop

I have this function where I need to return a list depending of what user pressed in Alert Dialog (cancel or save).
But I have an issue, let's imagine we have a list with a size of 10. Then on the iteration of that list it will build 10 alert dialogs at the same time plus a dark black shadow at the background caused by these.
So I'd like to "pause" until user pressed or find a way to don't pop up all these alert dialog at the same time and just appear one by one once pressed a button.
A quick reminder: I need to return a list after all dialogs have been pressed.
Question: How could I do that?

It would be better if you provided some code with this. Anyway, even though this is not something I would do and create 10 dialogs in the for loop, this can be done.
Just create a Boolean inside your for loop which will be used to check if the dialog is dismissed.
for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); ++i) {
Boolean isDismissed = false;
AlertDialog d = new AlertDialog(getBaseContext());
d.setOnDismissListener(new DialogInterface.OnDismissListener() {
#Override
public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
isDismissed = true;
}
});
//start your dialog
while(!isDismissed) {
//do nothing
}
}
As I said, I wouldn't do this.
Because I evaluate first a list of items, then I set on a new list of items that will require user to confirm about what to do with that, so I loop that with alert dialogs waiting for user to tell me what to do with those items
There is a much better way to do this. Why not starting one CustomDialog which will ask the user what to do with those items. He could choose options for each item with a spinner or if options are KEEP or DELETE just use checkbox or something.

So as people said, creating Alert Dialogs in a loop is a bad practice so my solution into this is just setting a view on Fragment that acts like a Dialog but I just turn it visible and gone whenever I need. This seems a proper solution for my case.
When user accept or cancel the view (clicking on button) just send it to the viewmodel and the viewmodel will evaluate if there are still items on the list. If there are items then show again this "view" on Fragment asking to user what to do :)
I don't have code to show because I haven't done it yet but I have thought for a while and this is the best I can think about. Hope it helps for someone who is in the same situation!

Android block screen when opening dialog or second dialog instance

I have an extended DialogFragment which is opening from current Fragment.
Recently I've found that it's possible to click on element which causes dialog opening two times in short time period and it will force to open two dialogs one above another. It's unexpected behavior for my app. I would like to make possible open only one dialog instance. What I'm doing wrong?
Below is my code for dialog opening.
public boolean onActionItemSelected(int menuId) {
switch (menuId) {
case R.id.action_change_passcode:
pinChangeFlag = true;
AbstractPinDialog pinChangeFirstDialog = new StandardPinDialog(this);
pinChangeFirstDialog.show(getFragmentManager(), StandardPinDialog.class.getName());
return true;
//... other cases
}
}

A simple way is to set a global boolean tag like
isDialogVisible=false;
when you show the dialog, set its value as true. before showing that dialog box check
if(! isDialogVisible){
dialog.show();
}
so only one dialog box will appear.
Or the second way is to check if view of the dialog box has been created or not, then use similar logic to not show the second dialog.

What is the best way to implement two custom dialogs, one after the other?

through the help of various tutorials, I've managed to write a custom dialog that displays a listview populated by records from a local database. I have set click listeners and figured out how to retrieve the record at the listview item clicked by setting the cursor at the position returned and so on...Now what I want to do is, dismiss this dialog when an item is clicked, and automatically open a new dialog with this cursor's content as the name of the table from which to re-populate the new listview. I'd like to know if anyone knows the best way of doing this in terms of application structure.
Currently, I am calling my dialog to show in my Activity like this:
public void onClick(View view) {
switch(view.getId()) {
case R.id.pickerbutton:
showDialog(DIALOG_PICK_CATEGORY);
break;
}
}
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
dialog = null;
switch(id) {
case DIALOG_PICK_CATEGORY:
CustomDialogList.Builder customBuilder = new
CustomDialogList.Builder(SendCookieActivity.this);
customBuilder.setTitle(R.string.category);
dialog = customBuilder.create();
break;
}
return dialog;
}
After this dialog is shown, the user picks a category from the CustomDialogList dialog. I am having a hard time thinking of how to make it so that after the category is picked, this dialog is dismissed (or looks like it's dismissed) and the same one with newly populated items appears (or can be a completely new dialog too). and when someone presses the back button, the previous dialog is shown. Think of it as a file explorer but with only two levels of depth. I'd like to keep using my CustomDialogList because I have customized its look to match everything else in my app. Perhaps what would help me with this problem besides or instead of code, would be some diagrams of how this type of UI flow has been implemented before along with some pseudo code.
Thanks.

Assuming your custom dialog extends Dialog (or one its sub-classes). Have your Activity implement DialogInterface.onDismissListener. Then after you create the dialog with...
dialog = customBuilder.create();
...use dialog.setOnDismissListener(this); before you show it.
Your Activity will have to implement...
#Override
public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
// Identify which dialog was dismissed and do something
}

When I have had to do this in the past, I have the onCancel for the dialog open the new dialog.

Android Class which extends Dialog, how to clear TextViews before it is displayed

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.

Showing simple message dialogs

In my activity, I'd like to show simple info dialogs, stuff like:
new AlertDialog.Builder(context).setMessage(message).show();
if I do that, the dialog will leak when I rotate that phone (not to mention it will disappear as well, so the user may miss it). I can use the managed dialogs, but I'm not sure how you use it sensibly for these types of short messages? Looks like you have to do this:
showDialog(SOME_DLG_ID);
...
#Override
onCreateDialog(int id) {
if (id == SOME_DLG_ID) {
new AlertDialog.Builder(context).setMessage(message).show();
}
}
there's no way to pass what the message should be into onCreateDialog since its an override method. I'd hate to make a member variable of the parent activity that just stores whatever the current message should be. How do you all do it?
Thanks

if I do that, the dialog will leak
when I rotate that phone (not to
mention it will disappear as well, so
the user may miss it)
You can add
<activity
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
>
to your AndroidManifest.xml to prevent restarting the activity when the phone rotates. I am using it in my app and my AlertDialog survives the rotation of phone.

You can implement Activity.onPrepareDialog(int, Dialog) to switch out the message before the dialog is shown on the screen. So you could do something like:
#Override protected void onPrepareDialog(int id, Dialog dialog) {
if (id == SOME_DLG_ID) {
((AlertDialog) dialog).setMessage(message);
}
}
You'd still have to keep track of the message you're current showing in your activity, but at least this way, you're not creating a Dialog object for each message you want to show.

Using DialogFragment to manage the dialog ensures that it correctly handles lifecycle events such as when the user rotates the screen or presses the Back button.