Prevent dialog dismissal on screen rotation in And

Question

I am trying to prevent dialogs built with Alert builder from being dismissed when the Activity is restarted.

If I overload the onConfigurationChanged method I can successfully do this and reset the layout to correct orientation but I lose sticky text feature of edittext. So in solving the dialog problem I have created this edittext problem.

If I save the strings from the edittext and reassign them in the onCofiguration change they still seem to default to initial value not what was entered before rotation. Even if I force an invalidate does seem to update them.

I really need to solve either the dialog problem or the edittext problem.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

A very easy approach is to create the dialogs from the method onCreateDialog() (see note below). You show them through showDialog(). This way, Android handles the rotation for you and you do not have to call dismiss() in onPause() to avoid a WindowLeak and then you neither have to restore the dialog. From the docs:

Show a dialog managed by this activity. A call to onCreateDialog(int, Bundle) will be made with the same id the first time this is called for a given id. From thereafter, the dialog will be automatically saved and restored.

See Android docs showDialog() for more info. Hope it helps somebody!

Note: If using AlertDialog.Builder, do not call show() from onCreateDialog(), call create() instead. If using ProgressDialog, just create the object, set the parameters you need and return it. In conclusion, show() inside onCreateDialog() causes problems, just create de Dialog instance and return it. This should work! (I have experienced issues using showDialog() from onCreate() -actually not showing the dialog-, but if you use it in onResume() or in a listener callback it works well).

Answer 2

This question was answered a long time ago.

Yet this is non-hacky and simple solution I use for myself.

I did this helper class for myself, so you can use it in your application too.

Usage is:

PersistentDialogFragment.newInstance(
        getBaseContext(),
        RC_REQUEST_CODE,
        R.string.message_text,
        R.string.positive_btn_text,
        R.string.negative_btn_text)
        .show(getSupportFragmentManager(), PersistentDialogFragment.TAG);

Or

 PersistentDialogFragment.newInstance(
        getBaseContext(),
        RC_EXPLAIN_LOCATION,
        "Dialog title", 
        "Dialog Message", 
        "Positive Button", 
        "Negative Button", 
        false)
    .show(getSupportFragmentManager(), PersistentDialogFragment.TAG);





public class ExampleActivity extends Activity implements PersistentDialogListener{

        @Override
        void onDialogPositiveClicked(int requestCode) {
                switch(requestCode) {
                  case RC_REQUEST_CODE:
                  break;
                }
        }

        @Override
        void onDialogNegativeClicked(int requestCode) {
                switch(requestCode) {
                  case RC_REQUEST_CODE:
                  break;
                }          
        }
}

Answer 3

Just add android:configChanges="orientation" with your activity element in AndroidManifest.xml

Example:

<activity
            android:name=".YourActivity"
            android:configChanges="orientation"
            android:label="@string/app_name"></activity>

Answer 4

Just use

ConfigurationChanges = Android.Content.PM.ConfigChanges.Orientation | Android.Content.PM.ConfigChanges.ScreenSize

and app will know how to handle rotation and screen size.

Answer 5

The best way to avoid this problem nowadays is by using a DialogFragment.

Create a new class which extends DialogFragment. Override onCreateDialog and return your old Dialog or an AlertDialog.

Then you can show it with DialogFragment.show(fragmentManager, tag).

Here's an example with a Listener:

public class MyDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {

    public interface YesNoListener {
        void onYes();

        void onNo();
    }

    @Override
    public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
        super.onAttach(activity);
        if (!(activity instanceof YesNoListener)) {
            throw new ClassCastException(activity.toString() + " must implement YesNoListener");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity())
                .setTitle(R.string.dialog_my_title)
                .setMessage(R.string.dialog_my_message)
                .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.yes, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                        ((YesNoListener) getActivity()).onYes();
                    }
                })
                .setNegativeButton(android.R.string.no, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                        ((YesNoListener) getActivity()).onNo();
                    }
                })
                .create();
    }
}

And in the Activity you call:

new MyDialogFragment().show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "tag"); // or getFragmentManager() in API 11+

This answer helps explain these other three questions (and their answers):

• Android Best way of avoid Dialogs to dismiss after a device rotation
• Android DialogFragment vs Dialog
• How can I show a DialogFragment using compatibility package?

Answer 6

// Prevent dialog dismiss when orientation changes
private static void doKeepDialog(Dialog dialog){
    WindowManager.LayoutParams lp = new WindowManager.LayoutParams();
    lp.copyFrom(dialog.getWindow().getAttributes());
    lp.width = WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
    lp.height = WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
    dialog.getWindow().setAttributes(lp);
}

public static void doLogout(final Context context){     
        final AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(context)
        .setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert)
        .setTitle(R.string.titlelogout)
        .setMessage(R.string.logoutconfirm)
        .setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
        {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                ...   
            }

        })
        .setNegativeButton("No", null)      
        .show();    

        doKeepDialog(dialog);
    }