Prompt User Input with an AlertDialog

Matter of style but you also can inline the whole thing

new AlertDialog.Builder(Main.this)
    .setTitle("Update Status")
    .setMessage(message)
    .setView(input)
    .setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            Editable value = input.getText(); 
        }
    }).setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            // Do nothing.
        }
    }).show();

Cheers very helpful. I like the inline version but found it bloats my code when I use auto formating..

There is a simple work around to avoid it auto-formatting. You can put a comment at the end of each line (and provide extra info if you want) but it will stop Eclipse from making it into one single line

this is awesome!!! I spent the whole night looking for a code like this. Thank you.

how do i display the user input on emulator? is this the only way in android java to get user input ? how to copy the input text to buffer or write to a file ?

Why am I getting an error on String value = input.getText(); ? Eclipse wants it to return an Editable or CharSequence...

Change it to:

String value = input.getText().toString();

Thanks! Its very helpful.

This code snippet is a LIFESAVER!! How will i get back the 4 days i lost in inflater h3ll? This was so simple.

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I guess there's something I must miss. Im trying to get this to work for several hours:

Context mContext = getApplicationContext();
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) mContext.getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.login_dialog, (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.rl));

new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
            .setView(layout)
            .setTitle("Login")
            .setPositiveButton("Login", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
            {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton)
                {
                    EditText email_input = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.et_email);
                    EditText pwd_input = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.et_password);
                    try
                    {
                        m_email = email_input.getText().toString();
                        m_password = pwd_input.getText().toString();
                        Toast.makeText(CLogin.this, m_email+ " || "+ m_password, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    }
                    catch (NullPointerException e)
                    {
                        System.out.println(">>> getText(): "+e);
                    }
                }
            }).show();

android:id="@+id/et_email" and android:id="@+id/et_password"

So the only thing that could throw is the assignment of the strings of the EditText!? Any suggestions? Help appreciated :)

I am trying to add user name and password field, but only one of the field is visible. How do I overcome this??

Thanks in advance...

    AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

        alert.setTitle("Registration");

        alert.setMessage("Server Name:");
        // Set an EditText view to get user input 
        final EditText servername = new EditText(this);
        alert.setView(servername);

        alert.setMessage("User Name:");
        // Set an EditText view to get user input 
        final EditText username = new EditText(this);
        alert.setView(username);

        alert.setMessage("Password:");
        // Set an EditText view to get user input 
        final EditText password = new EditText(this);
        //alert.setView(password);

        alert.setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
          String value1 = servername.getText().toString();
          String value2 = username.getText().toString();
          String value3 = password.getText().toString();
          // Do something with value!
          }
        });

You would need to add all three EditText Views into a single View, and then add the single view to the dialog.

I've written a helper class that makes it easy to create a prompt dialog with only a few lines of code.

PromptDialog dlg = new PromptDialog(MainActivity.this, R.string.title, R.string.enter_comment) {
 @Override
 public boolean onOkClicked(String input) {
  // do something
  return true; // true = close dialog
 }
};
dlg.show();

See full code => Prompt Dialog for Android

import android.R; import android.app.AlertDialog; import android.content.Context; import android.content.DialogInterface; import android.text.Editable; import android.widget.EditText;

/ * Creates a dialog with an input for text entry. */ public class InputDialog { public interface OnInputClickListener { public void onInputClickOk(String text); public void onInputClickCancel(String text); } OnInputClickListener mOnInputClickListener; public void setOnButtonClickOkListener(OnInputClickListener instance) { mOnInputClickListener = instance; } Context context; String title, message; EditText input;

public InputDialog(Context context, String title, String message) {
    this.context = context;
    this.title = title;
    this.message = message;
}
private String getText() {
    Editable editable = input.getText();
    return editable == null ? "": editable.toString();
}
public void show() {
    input = new EditText(context);
    AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);

    alert.setTitle(title);
    alert.setMessage(message);

    // Set an EditText view to get user input
    alert.setView(input);

    alert.setPositiveButton(R.string.ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            mOnInputClickListener.onInputClickOk(getText());
        }
    });
    alert.setNegativeButton(R.string.cancel, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            mOnInputClickListener.onInputClickOk(getText());
        }
    });
    alert.show();
}

import android.R; import android.app.AlertDialog; import android.content.Context; import android.content.DialogInterface; import android.text.Editable; import android.widget.EditText;

/ * Creates a dialog with an input for text entry. */ public class InputDialog { public interface OnInputClickListener { public void onInputClickOk(String text); public void onInputClickCancel(String text); } OnInputClickListener mOnInputClickListener; public void setOnButtonClickOkListener(OnInputClickListener instance) { mOnInputClickListener = instance; } Context context; String title, message; EditText input;

public InputDialog(Context context, String title, String message) {
    this.context = context;
    this.title = title;
    this.message = message;
}
private String getText() {
    Editable editable = input.getText();
    return editable == null ? "": editable.toString();
}
public void show() {
    input = new EditText(context);
    AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);

    alert.setTitle(title);
    alert.setMessage(message);

    // Set an EditText view to get user input
    alert.setView(input);

    alert.setPositiveButton(R.string.ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            mOnInputClickListener.onInputClickOk(getText());
        }
    });
    alert.setNegativeButton(R.string.cancel, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            mOnInputClickListener.onInputClickCancel(getText());
        }
    });
    alert.show();
}

very nice code. a question, how can i make the edittext as a numeric inputtype ? so as to display a numeric pad instead of a full keyboard

Hi, you should change the XML code for your component in your layout, in fact, you should use this: android:inputType="numberDecimal" This will show you the numeric keyboard

Regards

Thank you! Very helpful!

Thank you very much!

Add input.getText().toString();

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