While passing Android DialogFragment arguments, onCreateDialog bundle agument is unexpectedly null

Question

I am trying to display a basic dialog in Android using a DialogFragment using an argument for the dialog message as described in StackOverflow thread and DialogFragment document

Answer 1

you have to use getArguments to retrieve the Bundle you set with setArguments

Instead of

if(savedInstanceState != null) {
     dialogMessage = savedInstanceState.getString(DIALOG_MESSAGE);
}

you should have something like:

Bundle bundle = getArguments();
if (bundle != null) {
    dialogMessage = bundle.getString(DIALOG_MESSAGE);
}