Question

Is there any way to programmatically dismiss navigator.notification.alert()? I alert when there’s a location services error, but if it clears, I’d prefer to dismiss it rather than require the user to do it manually.

Any ideas or solutions?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can’t programmatically dismiss an alert() dialog, no.

What you could do, however, is instead of using alert() implement your own custom overlay that looks/acts similarly to an alert, and then you can easily dismiss that whenever you want. Some additional discussion is here:

Javascript close alert box

Edit

I did a bit more investigation into this and I no longer believe that the Phonegap alert() dialog is actually the same as the native JavaScript dialog. They are using some clever tricks to call back into native code (on both Android and iOS) to show the alert.

As such, it may be possible to dismiss the dialog programmatically, but almost certainly not from directly within your JavaScript code. You would need to use some similar trickery to call back from your JavaScript into native code, and then locate and dismiss the Phonegap alert view. The first part may be fairly difficult. The second part is trivial:

Hide UIAlertView programmatically?