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The document provides an overview of using dialogs in Android, explaining their purpose, types, and how to implement them using DialogFragment. It details the structure of an AlertDialog, including its title, content area, and action buttons, as well as methods for adding lists to dialogs. Additionally, it covers the use of Toast notifications for providing simple feedback to users.

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Dialog Fragment

The document provides an overview of using dialogs in Android, explaining their purpose, types, and how to implement them using DialogFragment. It details the structure of an AlertDialog, including its title, content area, and action buttons, as well as methods for adding lists to dialogs. Additionally, it covers the use of Toast notifications for providing simple feedback to users.

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Using dialogs in android

▪A dialog is a smaller window that pops up in front of the current


window to show an urgent message, to prompt the user for a piece of
input, or to show some sort of status like the progress of a download.
▪ The user is generally expected to interact with the dialog and then
return to the window underneath to continue with the application
▪Dialogs that are explicitly supported in Android include the alert,
prompt, pick-list, single-choice, multiple-choice, progress, time-picker,
and date-picker dialogs.
Using dialogs in android

▪Dialogs in Android are asynchronous, which provides flexibility.


▪ With a synchronous dialog, the line of code after the dialog is shown
does not run until the dialog has been dismissed.
▪In Android ,As soon as the dialog has been shown, the next line of
code runs, even though the user hasn’t touched the dialog yet.
▪Callbacks from the dialog allow the application to be notified of user
interaction with the dialog
Dialog Fragment
▪DialogFragment is a utility class which extends the Fragment class.
▪ DialogFragment displays or shows a Dialog but inside a Fragment
▪i.e. all the information regarding the Dialog or the data associated
with the Dialog will be stored or managed in the Fragment only
▪Class must extend DialogFragment with at least onCreateDialog
and/or onCreateView implemented.
▪Dialogs can be created using DialogFragment in two ways:
▪onCreateDialog – Here you can create the AlertDialog using the
AlertDialog.Builder class.
▪onCreateView – Here you can create a Dialog using a custom view
defined.
For example, a basic AlertDialog that's managed within a DialogFragment

public class FireMissilesDialogFragment extends DialogFragment


{
@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// Use the Builder class for convenient dialog construction
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
builder.setMessage(R.string.dialog_fire_missiles)
.setPositiveButton(R.string.fire, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id)
{
// FIRE ZE MISSILES!
} })
.setNegativeButton(R.string.cancel, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
// User cancelled the dialog } });
// Create the AlertDialog object and return it
return builder.create();
}}
Building an Alert Dialog
There are three regions of an alert dialog:
Title →This is optional and should be used only
when the content area is occupied by a
detailed message, a list, or custom layout.
Content area →This can display a message, a list, or other custom
layout.
Action buttons →There should be no more than three action buttons in
a dialog.
Building an Alert Dialog
▪To add action buttons , call the setPositiveButton() and
setNegativeButton() methods:
▪These methods require a title for the button (supplied by a string resource) and a
DialogInterface.OnClickListener that defines the action to take when the user
presses the button.
▪There are three different action buttons
▪Positive :use this to accept and continue with the action (the "OK" action).
▪Negative:use this to cancel the action.
▪Neutral:use this when the user may not want to proceed with the action, but
doesn't necessarily want to cancel. For example, the action might be "Remind me
later."
▪You can add only one of each button type to an AlertDialog. That is, you cannot
have more than one "positive" button.
Adding A List

▪There are three kinds of lists available with the AlertDialog APIs:
▪ A traditional single-choice list
▪ A persistent single-choice list (radio buttons)
▪ A persistent multiple-choice list (checkboxes)
Adding A List
▪To create a single-choice list
@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
builder.setTitle(R.string.pick_color)
.setItems(R.array.colors_array, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
// The 'which' argument contains the index position
// of the selected item
}
});
return builder.create();
}
▪To add a list of multiple-choice items (checkboxes) or single-choice items
(radio buttons), use the setMultiChoiceItems() or setSingleChoiceItems()
methods, respectively.
Working with Toast
▪A toast provides simple feedback about an operation in a small
popup.
▪ It only fills the amount of space required for the message and the
current activity remains visible and interactive.
▪ Toasts automatically disappear after a timeout.
▪For example, clicking Send on an email triggers a "Sending
message...“
▪Instantiate a Toast object with one of the makeText() methods.
▪ This method takes three parameters:
▪ The application Context
▪ The text message
▪ The duration for the toast.
▪It returns a properly initialized Toast object
▪Constants of Toast class
▪There are only 2 constants of Toast class which are given below.
▪ public static final int LENGTH_LONG: displays view for the long duration of
time.
▪ public static final int LENGTH_SHORT: displays view for the short duration of
time
Methods of Toast class
▪The widely used methods of Toast class are given below.
▪ public static Toast makeText(Context context, CharSequence text, int
duration) :makes the toast containing text and duration.
▪ public void show():displays toast.
▪ public void setMargin (float horizontalMargin, float verticalMargin):changes
the horizontal and vertical margin difference.
▪ You can display the toast notification with show(), as shown in the following example:
Context context = getApplicationContext();
CharSequence text = "Hello toast!";
int duration = Toast.LENGTH_SHORT;
Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, text, duration);
toast.show();
Or use this single line code
Toast.makeText(context, text, duration).show();
◦ Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Hello world",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Toast
▪A standard toast notification appears near the bottom of the screen, centered horizontally.
▪This position can be changed with the setGravity(int, int, int) method.
▪ This accepts three parameters: a Gravity constant, an x-position offset, and a y-position offset.
▪ If the toast should appear in the top-left corner, set the gravity like this
▪toast.setGravity(Gravity.TOP|Gravity.LEFT, 0, 0);

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