What is the difference between a dialog being dismissed or canceled in Android?

Question

Like the title says, what is the difference between a dialog being dismissed or canceled in Android?

Answer 1

The difference is all about returning the value to the caller function.

dialog.cancel() will normally be called when the user hits the back button rather than selecting the choices that alert dialog offers like OK/Dismiss and return null/no value to the caller. While

dialog.dismiss() is normally called when the user selects from the choices that alert dialog offers like hitting the Dismiss button on the dialog will dismiss the dialog and will return the non-null corresponding value to the caller. That's it.