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

Inspired by Tom's answer, I believe the idea here is:

• Set the onClickListener during the creation of the dialog to null
• Then set a onClickListener after the dialog is shown.

You can override the onShowListener like Tom. Alternatively, you can

1. get the button after calling AlertDialog's show()
2. set the buttons' onClickListener as follows (slightly more readable I think).

Code:

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
// ...
final AlertDialog dialog = builder.create();
dialog.show();
// now you can override the default onClickListener
Button b = dialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE);
b.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        Log.i(TAG, "ok button is clicked");
        handleClick(dialog);
    }
});