AlertDialog's items not displayed

android android-alertdialog
Allan Mermod picture Allan Mermod · May 23, 2012 · Viewed 18.6k times · Source

I create an AlertDialog with an AlertDialog.Builder and set some items with setItems(). The dialog is shown but I cannot see any of the items. All I see is the message.

final CharSequence[] items = {"Red", "Green", "Blue"};

AlertDialog.Builder dialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity);
dialogBuilder.setMessage("Pick a color");
dialogBuilder.setItems(items, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {        
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
        // Do anything you want here
    }    
});

dialogBuilder.create().show();

If I set the PositiveButton, I can see that button just fine. I also tried setting MultiChoiceItems and SingleChoiceItems but neither of these work either.

Answer

Paweł Nadolski picture Paweł Nadolski · May 23, 2012

Use setTitle instead of setMessage which sets message body and overrides the items list.

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