OnCancelListener is not called in DialogFragment

Question

I have a simple AlertDialog that displays a list of some items and upon clicking one of them, the clicked item is passed back to the enclosing Activity

Answer 1

Actually if you want to use DialogFragment, you can never add OnCancelListener or OnDismissListener to it, since the Dialog Fragment owns callbacks to these methods!

You have 3 options here:

1- go with regular dialogs.
2- set your dialog fragment to cancellable(false) and add a cancel button to the dialog.
3- check @Nikhil Pingle answer.

this is from the documentation of the Dialog Fragment

 * 
Note: DialogFragment own the {@link Dialog#setOnCancelListener
 * Dialog.setOnCancelListener} and {@link Dialog#setOnDismissListener
 * Dialog.setOnDismissListener} callbacks.  You must not set them yourself.
 * To find out about these events, override {@link #onCancel(DialogInterface)}
 * and {@link #onDismiss(DialogInterface)}.