Android close dialog after 5 seconds?

Question

I\'m working on an accesibility app. When the user wants to leave the app I show a dialog where he has to confirm he wants to leave, if he doesn\'t confirm after 5 seconds t

Answer 1

For Kotlin inspired by Tahirhan's answer. This is what worked for my current project. Hope it will help someone else in the near future. Im calling this function in a fragment. Happy coding!

 fun showAlert(message: String) {
        val builder = AlertDialog.Builder(activity)
        builder.setMessage(message)

        val alert = builder.create()
        alert.show()

        val timer = Timer()
        timer.schedule(object : TimerTask() {
            override fun run() {
                alert.dismiss()
                timer.cancel()
            }
        }, 5000)
    }