“android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window” on buider.show()

Question

From my main activity, I need to call an inner class and in a method within the class, I need to show AlertDialog. After dismissing it, when the OK

Answer 1

I am creating Dialog in onCreate and using it with show and hide. For me the root cause was not dismissing onBackPressed, which was finishing the Home activity.

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
                .setTitle("Really Exit?")
                .setMessage("Are you sure you want to exit?")
                .setNegativeButton(android.R.string.no, null)
                .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.yes,
                        new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,
                                    int which) {
                                Home.this.finish();
                                return;
                            }
                        }).create().show();

I was finishing the Home Activity onBackPressed without closing / dismissing my dialogs.

When I dismissed my dialogs the crash disappeared.

new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
                .setTitle("Really Exit?")
                .setMessage("Are you sure you want to exit?")
                .setNegativeButton(android.R.string.no, null)
                .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.yes,
                        new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,
                                    int which) {
                                networkErrorDialog.dismiss() ;
                                homeLocationErrorDialog.dismiss() ;
                                currentLocationErrorDialog.dismiss() ;
                                Home.this.finish();
                                return;
                            }
                        }).create().show();