android prompt user's input using a dialog

Question

I would like to prompt the user to give me input in my android application using a dialog. this is what I have found:

AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDi         


        

Answer 1

When I ran your code in a new project, it worked fine. So probably "this" that you are using

• is not an activity
• is not the activity in view i.e. there might be a parent activity. If it is the child of some activity, use getParent() instead of "this".
• is null

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I've written a helper class that makes it easy to create a prompt dialog with only a few lines of code.

PromptDialog dlg = new PromptDialog(MainActivity.this, R.string.title, R.string.enter_comment) {
 @Override
 public boolean onOkClicked(String input) {
  // do something
  return true; // true = close dialog
 }
};
dlg.show();

See full code => Prompt Dialog for Android