Question

I just realized that I don’t see a way to collect a string from the user in a simple, pre-packaged Dialog prompt. Am I overlooking something or do I really need to write a custom Dialog to perform this function?

Answer 1

Basically I would use an AlertDialog and create a new EditText.
Hand it to the Dialog with .setView and handle the text in the onClick-Events.

  final EditText prompt = new EditText(this);
  AlertDialog.Builder builder = new Builder(this);
  builder.setTitle("My fancy title");
  builder.setView(prompt);
  builder.setPositiveButton("Ok", new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
      String myText = prompt.getText().toString();
    }
  });
  AlertDialog promptDialog = builder.create();
  promptDialog.show();