I'm looking to replicate and improve upon the following AlertDialog in my app:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/aU3Ep.png
Is this a built-in AlertDialog, or was this made from scratch? If it was made from scratch, what control/widget is the number picker? Or is that built from scratch too?
Thanks!
btw.. screenshot is from Math Alarm Clock Pro
Looks like custom dialog made like explained here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html#CustomDialog
Kind of looks similar to this one:
http://www.quietlycoding.com/?p=5
So that would mean: custom made.
You find some interesting links if you search on google for "android NumberPicker"
Built in Dialogs are AlertDialog, DatePickerDialog, ProgressDialog, TimePickerDialog (see developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlertDialog.html )
This explains the default AlertDialogs: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html
But there is one interesting function in AlertDialog (setView(...)) you could use to make the above (but you have to create the view by yourself - edittext and two buttons plus okay button - and assign the onclickevents). See the function here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlertDialog.html#setView(android.view.View)
Just looks like a standard dialog set to have no title. It then has an EditText sandwiched between two buttons with a confirmation button at the bottom.
Edit: Here is an abridged snippet from my onCreateDialog override in an app of mine.
Dialog dialog;
dialog = new Dialog(this);
dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
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I know that the Dialog class is the base class for dialogs, but it says in the documentation that you should avoid instantiating Dialog directly. Instead, you should use one of the following subclasses: AlertDialog or DatePickerDialog or TimePickerDialog.
Why?
AlertDialog is a lightweight version of a Dialog. This is supposed to deal with INFORMATIVE matters only, That's the reason why complex interactions with the user are limited. Dialog on the other hand is able to do even more complex things .
when would i use an Alert Dialog?
-When i just want to inform something to the user .
-When we want use for a prompt like Do you want to go back (Yes, No, Cancel. Alert dialog comes with 3 buttons which are positive, negative and neutral which are provided by default).
-When i want to prompt user for a simple value (number/date/string...)
when would i use a Dialog?
-When i want to carry on a complex process with more buttons and widgets .
-Example:
Dialogs in Android are used to shows alerts for making decisions or to edit a single value.
But there are some differences between an AlertDialog and a Dialog.
In an AlertDialog you always want to show a message and at least one Button for user interaction.
In a Dialog you have a custom view to a TextView or something more complex.
I want to show an input dialog exactly like this:
On the android dev page I couldn't find a fitting dialog type? (Alerts, simple dialogs and confirmation dialogs)
I would appreciate it if someone could explain which component this is.
You should use simple Dialog fragment.
Refer following link http://stacktips.com/tutorials/android/android-dialog-fragment-example
I am a new developer and I want to build an app for a personal purpose.
I would like to receive some input when the application load up on with dialog box with textbox for input only number and 1 button "Ok".
I tried to find solutions but could not so.
Thank you for all !
Android do built in alert dialog. What you need just inflate your custom layout to create alert dialog. You don't have to add your custom button which android also provite negative(some cancel action),positive(some comfirm action),neutral(which is something work like default) button for you. Which you just need to study the link.
Hi I want to make a custom dialogue box for my android application and want to populate it with buttons, check boxes and such kind of items.
I have followed the tutorial from android developers website, but that is not what I want, actually I want to customise the background and size of the dialogue box.
Please if any body could give me a head start, Plus I want to know when I design a background for that box, what dimensions and pixel numbers I use so that it may run the same in Galaxy Note, Galaxy S and tablets and other mobile phones running android.
Here is the picture of customised dialogue box. Like that I want to work out something.
Yes this is a good question. You must use a custom dialog with a transparent bg theme like these:
Dialog dialog = new Dialog(mContext, android.R.style.Theme_Translucent_NoTitleBar);
dialog.setContentView(R.layout.custom_dialog);
dialog.show();
where custom_dialog will be your XML for the dialog layout, and as far as dimensions go you should really test your app on a number of different screen resolution devices to ensure it displays as you want.
On occasion I have wanted to create a fully customized dialog such as the one you've shown.
When I had to do it, I fought for a while trying to make it a Dialog. In the end I found it was far easier to just wrap my dialog in its own activity, set it to theme transparent in the manifest, and make the layout xml file such that there was transparent space around the edges. That was the easiest way for me to get rid of all of the default dialog formatting (i.e. the frame that it comes in if you do it with the setContentView() route)
So while it is not technically a dialog any more, to the user it serves the same purpose.
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1203/devicei.png
I've seen this in a few apps, and i have expiremented with both PopupWindow, and AlertDialog and I was confused which this was.
Thanks
It's an AlertDialog. You can browse that app's source code here (look at com.sunlightlabs.android.congress.MainMenu).