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

Kotlin

val dialogView = LayoutInflater.from(requireContext()).inflate(R.layout.dialog_userinput, null)
        val dialogBuilder = MaterialAlertDialogBuilder(requireContext(), R.style.AlertDialogTheme)
   
        dialogBuilder.setView(dialogView)
        dialogBuilder.setCancelable(false)
        dialogBuilder.setPositiveButton("send",null)
        dialogBuilder.setNegativeButton("cancel") { dialog,_ ->
        dialog.dismiss()
        }


        val alertDialog = dialogBuilder.create()
        alertDialog.show()

        val positiveButton = alertDialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE)
        positiveButton.setOnClickListener {
            val myInputText = dialogView.etxt_userinput.text.toString().trim()
            if(myInputText.isNotEmpty()){
             //Do something
            }else{
                //Prompt error
                dialogView.etxt_userinput.error = "Please fill this"
            }
        }

We just create an AlertDialog with the dialogBuilder and then just set the positive button as we want