On showing dialog i get "Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState"

Question

Some users are reporting, if they use the quick action in the notification bar, they are getting a force close.

I show a quick action in the notification who calls the "TestDialog" class. In the TestDialog class after pressing the button "snooze", I will show the SnoozeDialog.

private View.OnClickListener btnSnoozeOnClick() {
    return new View.OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View v) {
            showSnoozeDialog();
        }
    };
}

private void showSnoozeDialog() {
    FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
    SnoozeDialog snoozeDialog = new SnoozeDialog();
    snoozeDialog.show(fm, "snooze_dialog");
}

The error is *IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState*.

The code line where the IllegarStateException gets fired is:

snoozeDialog.show(fm, "snooze_dialog");

The class is extending "FragmentActivity" and the "SnoozeDialog" class is extending "DialogFragment".

Here is the complete stack trace of the error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState
at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.checkStateLoss(FragmentManager.java:1327)
at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.enqueueAction(FragmentManager.java:1338)
at android.support.v4.app.BackStackRecord.commitInternal(BackStackRecord.java:595)
at android.support.v4.app.BackStackRecord.commit(BackStackRecord.java:574)
at android.support.v4.app.DialogFragment.show(DialogFragment.java:127)
at com.test.testing.TestDialog.f(TestDialog.java:538)
at com.test.testing.TestDialog.e(TestDialog.java:524)
at com.test.testing.TestDialog.d(TestDialog.java:519)
at com.test.testing.g.onClick(TestDialog.java:648)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:3620)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:14292)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4507)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:790)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:557)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

I can't reproduce this error, but I am getting a lot of error reports.

Can anybody help that how can I fix this error?

Answer 1

This is common issue. We solved this issue by overriding show() and handling exception in DialogFragment extended class

public class CustomDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {

    @Override
    public void show(FragmentManager manager, String tag) {
        try {
            FragmentTransaction ft = manager.beginTransaction();
            ft.add(this, tag);
            ft.commit();
        } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
            Log.d("ABSDIALOGFRAG", "Exception", e);
        }
    }
}

Note that applying this method will not alter the internal fields of the DialogFragment.class:

boolean mDismissed;
boolean mShownByMe;

This may lead to unexpected results in some cases. Better use commitAllowingStateLoss() instead of commit()