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Android: How to override onBackPressed() in AlertDialog?


I have an AlertDialog dlgDetails which is shown from another AlertDialog dlgMenu. I would like to be able to show dlgMenu again if the user presses the back button in dlgDetails and simply exit the dialog if he presses outside the dialog.

I think the best way to do this is to override onBackPressed for dlgDetails, but I am not sure how to do that since AlertDialogs must be created indirectly using the Builder.

I am trying to create a derived AlertDialog (public class AlertDialogDetails extends AlertDialog { ...} ) but then I guess I must also extend AlertDialog.Builder in that class to return an AlertDialogDetails, but isn't there a simpler way? And if not, how would you go about overriding the Builder?


Solution

  • I finally added a key listener to my dialog to listen to the Back key. Not as elegant as overriding onBackPressed() but it works. Here is the code:

    dlgDetails = new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
        .setOnKeyListener(new DialogInterface.OnKeyListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onKey (DialogInterface dialog, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
                if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && 
                    event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_UP && 
                    !event.isCanceled()) {
                    dialog.cancel();
                    showDialog(DIALOG_MENU);
                    return true;
                }
                return false;
            }
        })
        //(Rest of the .stuff ...)
    

    For answer in Kotlin see here:Not working onbackpressed when setcancelable of alertdialog is false