AutocompleteSearchFragment in Dialog gives InflateException

Question

I am using the Google Map\'s Places API\'s AutoCompleteSearchFragment in a Dialog. The error that I am getting occurs when I launch the dialog, close i

Answer 1

I found the solution to the problem, for those that it may help later on.

In order to prevent the Activity from thinking that there is more than one AutocompleteSearchFragment with the same ID each time I open the Dialog, I set a onDismissListener for the Dialog in order to remove the AutocompleteSearchFragment:

The code:

alert.setOnDismissListener(new DialogInterface.OnDismissListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().
               remove((Fragment) autocompleteSupportFragment).commit();
    }
});

What the code above does is when the Dialog called alert is dismissed, it uses the SupportFragmentManager to remove that AutocompleteSearchFragment.