Question

Suppose that we have

EditText editTextTitle = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.textTitle);

When the user touches the text field the keyboard appears in order to write some text. Instead of this I want to appear a multiple choice list with some elements. When the user confirms the selected items then I want to pass the text of these elements on the editTextTitle. Is that possible?

Answer 1

Sure, simply set an OnClickListener on the EditText to open your custom dialog. Also use a callback to assign the user’s selected choice to the EditText (assuming you want to do this).

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Addition

how can I pass the onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) in the onClickListener?

onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) is a method in DialogFragment, so it’s impossible to give one answer to cover every way you could create your Fragment… But let’s assume you already have a DialogFragment named dialogFrag initialized and ready to go:

editTextTitle.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick (View v) {
        dialogFrag.show();
    }
}