How to get the AlertDialog title?

Question

I tried to get the message and the following line of code works:

TextView dialogMessage = (TextView)dialogObject.findViewById(android.R.id.message);
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Answer 1

You can implement it your self. Create your own class that extend android.app.AlertDialog.Builder. And then create a variable to store your value after using the method setTitle().

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import android.content.Context;
import android.support.annotation.StringRes;

public class AlertDialog extends android.app.AlertDialog.Builder {

    private Context context;
    private String title;

    public AlertDialog(Context context) {
        super(context);
        this.context = context;
    }

    public AlertDialog(Context context, int themeResId) {
        super(context, themeResId);
        this.context = context;
    }

    /**
     * Set title using string
     */
    @Override
    public AlertDialog setTitle(CharSequence title) {

        // set the title
        this.title = title.toString();

        super.setTitle(title);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Set title using resource string
     */
    @Override
    public AlertDialog setTitle(@StringRes int titleId) {

        this.title = this.context.getText(titleId).toString();

        super.setTitle(titleId);
        return this;
    }

    // create public method
    public String getTitle(){
        return this.title;
    }
}

And then use you can use it as ordinary AlertDialog, with implemented method which get its title. Then you can test it:

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Crete new alert dialog
        AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog(this);
        dialog.setMessage("Type some message here :D");
        dialog.setTitle(R.string.settings_title);           // string resource
        dialog.setTitle("Dialog1 title");                   // string
        dialog.show();

        // Crete secondary dialog with same title
        // using getTitle() method
        new AlertDialog(this)
                .setTitle(dialog.getTitle())
                .setMessage("Copy title from first dialog.")
                .show();

    }
}