custom alert dialog getting unwanted padding

Question

I have tried to make a custom alert dialog and it mostly works very well. the functionality is working perfectly but the view is behaving in a weird way. The dialog layout c

Answer 1

For me, it seemed that builder.setView(dialogView, 0, 0, 0, 0); is set to @hide and not available. In the end, I had to set the padding of my custom view's parent after calling show()

For example:

// Inflate custom dialog view
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
CustomDialogView dialogView = (CustomDialogView)inflater.inflate(R.layout.dialog_view, null);

// Create and show custom alert dialog
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
builder.setTitle(R.string.dialog_title);
builder.setView(dialogView);
builder.setPositiveButton(R.string.dialog_ok, this);
builder.setNegativeButton(R.string.dialog_cancel, this);
builder.show();

// Remove padding from parent
ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup)dialogView.getParent();
parent.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);