Android Confirmation dialog returning true or false

Question

It seems to be there is no easy way to get an Alert dialog to return a simple value.
This code does not work (the answer variable cannot be set from within the listener, in fact it does not even compile)

public static boolean Confirm(Context context) {
    boolean answer;
    AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(context).create();
    dialog.setTitle("Confirmation");
    dialog.setMessage("Choose Yes or No");
    dialog.setCancelable(false);
    dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE, "Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) {
            answer = true;
        }
    });
    dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_NEGATIVE, "No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) {
            answer = false;
        }
    });
    dialog.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert);
    dialog.show();
    return answer;
}

NOTE: It is important that the method is self contained, i.e., it does not depend on variables or constructs external to it. Just call it and get your answer, true or false.

So, what to do? This simple wish of returning true or false seems to be much more complicated than it deserves.

Also, the setButton method has the form:

dialog.setButton(int buttonId, String buttonText, Message msg)

But it is not clear how to use it, where is the meesage sent to, to whom, which handler is used?

Answer 1

i have post similiar problem in this forum, but finally i get my answer. my problem in that post is how to create separate confirm dialog class who can acces by other class or activity, so with that confirm dialog class we don't need to write long coding.

here's my answer.

First you must create DialogHandler.java

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import src.app.R;

public class DialogHandler {
    public Runnable ans_true = null;
    public Runnable ans_false = null;

    // Dialog. --------------------------------------------------------------

    public boolean Confirm(Activity act, String Title, String ConfirmText,
            String CancelBtn, String OkBtn, Runnable aProcedure, Runnable bProcedure) {
        ans_true = aProcedure;
        ans_false= bProcedure;
        AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(act).create();
        dialog.setTitle(Title);
        dialog.setMessage(ConfirmText);
        dialog.setCancelable(false);
        dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE, OkBtn,
                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) {
                         ans_true.run();
                    }
                });
        dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_NEGATIVE, CancelBtn,
                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) {
                        ans_false.run();
                    }
                });
        dialog.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert);
        dialog.show();
        return true;
    }
}

And this is example to call it in another class

public class YourActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        findViewById(R.id.button1).setOnClickListener(myclick);
    }

    public final Button.OnClickListener myclick = new Button.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            doclick();
        }
    };

    public void doclick() {
        DialogHandler appdialog = new DialogHandler();
        appdialog.Confirm(this, "Message title", "Message content",
                "Cancel", "OK", aproc(), bproc());
    }

    public Runnable aproc(){
        return new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                Log.d("Test", "This from A proc");
            }
          };
    }

    public Runnable bproc(){
        return new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                Log.d("Test", "This from B proc");
            }
          };
    }


}