Question

I’m looking at the documentation here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html#PassingEvents

And all their examples seem to overlook the developer’s potential desire to totally alter the appearance and/or positioning of the OK | Cancel buttons.

I feel like the solution with the DialogFragment comes close, but still there’s no obvious way for me to define what View in my activity should BE the OK button, so that I can easily attach the callback to it.

What am I missing? Or is it really not possible to manipulate the appearance and position of the buttons in anything that extends AlertDialog or DialogFragment?

Answer 1

You can use Dialog and add your own custom layout to it and control the appearance of every view in it. Here is an example how you can do this :

final Dialog alert = new Dialog(FingerPaintActivity.this, android.R.style.Theme_Light_Panel);
alert.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); // no title 
alert.getWindow().getAttributes().windowAnimations = R.style.PauseDialogAnimation; // this is used for custom animation when dialog is showing and hiding 
alert.setContentView(getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.stamps, null)); // here is your custom layout
alert.getWindow().setLayout(width-50, (height-100)); // set height / width

and you can use set listeners to your views (for example a button) like this :

Button myOkBtn = (Button) alert.findViewById(R.id.myOkBtn);
myOkBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {

        }
    });