Android Confirmation dialog returning true or false

Question

It seems to be there is no easy way to get an Alert dialog to return a simple value.
This code does not work (the answer variable cannot be set

Answer 1

i have post similiar problem in this forum, but finally i get my answer. my problem in that post is how to create separate confirm dialog class who can acces by other class or activity, so with that confirm dialog class we don't need to write long coding.

here's my answer.

First you must create DialogHandler.java

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import src.app.R;

public class DialogHandler {
    public Runnable ans_true = null;
    public Runnable ans_false = null;

    // Dialog. --------------------------------------------------------------

    public boolean Confirm(Activity act, String Title, String ConfirmText,
            String CancelBtn, String OkBtn, Runnable aProcedure, Runnable bProcedure) {
        ans_true = aProcedure;
        ans_false= bProcedure;
        AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(act).create();
        dialog.setTitle(Title);
        dialog.setMessage(ConfirmText);
        dialog.setCancelable(false);
        dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE, OkBtn,
                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) {
                         ans_true.run();
                    }
                });
        dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_NEGATIVE, CancelBtn,
                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) {
                        ans_false.run();
                    }
                });
        dialog.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert);
        dialog.show();
        return true;
    }
}

And this is example to call it in another class

public class YourActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        findViewById(R.id.button1).setOnClickListener(myclick);
    }

    public final Button.OnClickListener myclick = new Button.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            doclick();
        }
    };

    public void doclick() {
        DialogHandler appdialog = new DialogHandler();
        appdialog.Confirm(this, "Message title", "Message content",
                "Cancel", "OK", aproc(), bproc());
    }

    public Runnable aproc(){
        return new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                Log.d("Test", "This from A proc");
            }
          };
    }

    public Runnable bproc(){
        return new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                Log.d("Test", "This from B proc");
            }
          };
    }


}

Answer 2

What you can do is create a Listener for your Alert Dialog that listens to AlertDialogs action using an Interface.

Create an Interface.

public class MyInterface {

    DialogReturn dialogReturn;

    public interface DialogReturn {

        void onDialogCompleted(boolean answer);
    }

    public void setListener(DialogReturn dialogReturn) {
        this.dialogReturn = dialogReturn;
    }

    public DialogReturn getListener() {
        return dialogReturn;

    }
}

Now, in your class just implement the Interface that you created using implements MyInterface.DialogReturn

then you can set the Listener and get it working as show below,

public class Main extends Activity implements MyInterface.DialogReturn{

    MyInterface myInterface;
    MyInterface.DialogReturn dialogReturn;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                ....
        myInterface = new MyInterface();
        myInterface.setListener(this);
    }


   public void Confirm(Context context) {
        AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(context).create();
        dialog.setTitle("Confirmation");
        dialog.setMessage("Choose Yes or No");
        dialog.setCancelable(false);
        dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE, "Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) {
                myInterface.getListener().onDialogCompleted(true);
            }
        });
        dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_NEGATIVE, "No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) {
                myInterface.getListener().onDialogCompleted(false);
            }
        });
        dialog.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert);
        dialog.show();
         }


@Override
    public void onDialogCompleted(boolean answer) {
        Toast.makeText(Main.this, answer+"", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            if(answer)
            // do something
            else
            // do something
    }
}