Tap outside Android dialog to dismiss it?

Question

I was wondering if it\'s possible to somehow tap outside a popup dialog (or an Activity with a dialog theme), and dismiss it by just tapping outside of it?

I made a

Answer 1

You could use Activity#setFinishOnTouchOutside too, if your dialog is an Activity. That's gotta be the shortest way for Activitys ;)

(It's API 11+ though. But API <= 10 is generally screen size normal.)

Answer 2

    dialog = new Dialog(MainActivity.this);
    dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    dialog.setContentView(R.layout.dialog_layout);
    dialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawableResource(
            android.R.color.transparent);
    dialog.setCancelable(false);

    dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);

Check if you have this line of code or not....

    dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);

Answer 3

Simply I write dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false); and it work for me, window will not dismiss on outside tap .

Answer 4

this.setFinishOnTouchOutside(false);

you can use this

Answer 5

You may use

  dialog.setCancelable(true\false); 

For the lastest vesrions of Android;

It will disable outSideTouching event.

Answer 6

My app is a single activity with Theme.Holo.Dialog. In my case the other answer did not work. It only made the other background apps or the launch screen to receive touch events.

I found that using dispatchTouchEvent works in my case. I think it is also a simpler solution. Here's some sample code on how to use it to detect taps outside the activity with a Dialog theme:

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    Rect dialogBounds = new Rect();
    getWindow().getDecorView().getHitRect(dialogBounds);

    if (!dialogBounds.contains((int) ev.getX(), (int) ev.getY())) {
        // Tapped outside so we finish the activity
        this.finish();
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}