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 ProgressDialogs

To prevent the dialog from being dismissed automatically you have to set the OnClickListener after the ProgressDialog is shown, like so:

connectingDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);

connectingDialog.setCancelable(false);
connectingDialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);

// Create the button but set the listener to a null object.
connectingDialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_NEGATIVE, "Cancel", 
        (DialogInterface.OnClickListener) null )

// Show the dialog so we can then get the button from the view.
connectingDialog.show();

// Get the button from the view.
Button dialogButton = connectingDialog.getButton( DialogInterface.BUTTON_NEGATIVE);

// Set the onClickListener here, in the view.
dialogButton.setOnClickListener( new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick ( View v ) {

        // Dialog will not get dismissed until you call dismiss() explicitly.

    }

});