Question

In my app, I’m using an AlertDialog with a custom view. This view contains a couple of EditTexts and a few other things. There are some listeners attached to the EditTexts that perform whatever functionality is needed.

On the button click of the dialog, I am performing some validation on the data entered into the EditTexts and display another AlertDialog if the data is invalid. Once that (second) dialog is closed, I want to remain on the main dialog (with the custom view), but for some reason that dialog is closed before my second dialog is shown. How can I keep the original (custom view) dialog still open under the second dialog?

Here’s my (simplified) code:

final EntryPanel panel = new EntryPanel(OrderActivity.this);

AlertDialog dlg = new AlertDialog.Builder(OrderActivity.this)
    .setCancelable(true)
    .setView(panel)
    .setPositiveButton(R.string.button_ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
            final int id = pePanel.getProductId();
            if(!isValidProduct(id)) {

                new AlertDialog.Builder(OrderActivity.this)
                    .setMessage(R.string.error_unknown_product)
                    .setCancelable(true)
                    .setPositiveButton(R.string.button_ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

                        @Override
                        public void onClick(DialogInterface dlg2, int which) {
                            dlg2.cancel();

                        }
                    })
                    .show();
            }
            else {
                processProductEntry(id);
                dialog.dismiss();
            }
        }
    })
    .setNegativeButton(R.string.button_cancel, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
            dialog.cancel();
        }
    }).show();

Answer 1

So, it’s not possible to keep both dialogs open. Therefore I changed the first dialog (with the custom view) to be an activity with theme being Theme.Dialog – it displays the way it should – and then open the second dialog from it. This way, when the second dialog is opened, the original activity (which looks like a dialog) is still visible in the background.