How to prevent a dialog from closing when a button is clicked

Question

I have a dialog with EditText for input. When I click the \"yes\" button on dialog, it will validate the input and then close the dialog. However, if the input

Answer 1

For pre API 8 i solved the problem using a boolean flag, a dismiss listener and calling dialog.show again if in case the content of the editText wasn´t correct. Like this:

case ADD_CLIENT:
        LayoutInflater factoryClient = LayoutInflater.from(this);
        final View EntryViewClient = factoryClient.inflate(
                R.layout.alert_dialog_add_client, null);

        EditText ClientText = (EditText) EntryViewClient
                .findViewById(R.id.client_edit);

        AlertDialog.Builder builderClient = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        builderClient
                .setTitle(R.string.alert_dialog_client)
                .setCancelable(false)
                .setView(EntryViewClient)
                .setPositiveButton("Save",
                        new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,
                                    int whichButton) {
                                EditText newClient = (EditText) EntryViewClient
                                        .findViewById(R.id.client_edit);
                                String newClientString = newClient
                                        .getText().toString();
                                if (checkForEmptyFields(newClientString)) {
                                    //If field is empty show toast and set error flag to true;
                                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                                            "Fields cant be empty",
                                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                                    add_client_error = true;
                                } else {
                                    //Here save the info and set the error flag to false
                                    add_client_error = false;
                                }
                            }
                        })
                .setNegativeButton("Cancel",
                        new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,
                                    int id) {
                                add_client_error = false;
                                dialog.cancel();
                            }
                        });
        final AlertDialog alertClient = builderClient.create();
        alertClient.show();

        alertClient
                .setOnDismissListener(new DialogInterface.OnDismissListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
                        //If the error flag was set to true then show the dialog again
                        if (add_client_error == true) {
                            alertClient.show();
                        } else {
                            return;
                        }

                    }
                });
        return true;