How to add TextView and EditText using default AlertDialog programmatically

Question

I\'ve been trying to add two elements in a default AlertDialog but I can\'t seem to make it work. Here\'s my code:

// START Dialog
    AlertDialog.Builder alertD         


        

Answer 1

When calling setView() the original TextView holding the message gets hidden. You need to

• create a small layout xml and put the EditText and a TextView to it
• inflate the layout
• get references of the views with findViewById()
• do something with the views