dialogfragment

This question already has an answer here: Android DialogFragment vs Dialog 7 answers When developing an Android app, I've read that it's recommended to use DialogFragment instead of using directly an AlertDialog to show alerts and confirmations. This is done, for example, on DialogFragment's Documentation: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DialogFragment.html People also say they prefer this here: Android DialogFragment vs Dialog I would like to know the advantages of this approach, since the code becomes more complex. Thanks Tobrun Use DialogFragment over Dialog: Since the

I have a dialogfragment for a floating dialog which includes a special keyboard that pops up when a user presses inside an EditText field (the normal IME is stopped from being displayed). I would like the keyboard to be dismissed (visibility = GONE) when the user presses the back button (just as with a normal IME service) but the dialog to remain visible. However, there does not appear to be a way to do this as far as I can see from my fairly extensive reading on SO and elsewhere. If I set the dialog to be non-cancelable then I don't get notified by onCancel() or onDismiss() because the dialog