DialogFragment.dismiss crashing with NullPointerException

Question

I\'m doing some background work and showing a DialogFragment while I do that. Once my work is done and the relevant callback is invoked, I dismiss the dialog. When I do, I get a

Answer 1

Simplest solution is to check "getFragmentManager()" for "null" before calling "dismiss()" method. Also you can extend "DialogFragment" class and override method "dismiss()" to check it there:

@Override
public void dismiss()
{
    if (getFragmentManager() != null) super.dismiss();
}