Hide a loading spinner when you click outside of it in Android

Question

I am using a loading spinner animation with a set of items. If you click outside of it, then it should disappear. Does anybody know how to do this?

Spinner

I have tried this. It's working with EditText. But it's not working for Spinner

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    View view = getCurrentFocus();
    boolean ret = super.dispatchTouchEvent(event);

    if (view instanceof EditText||view instanceof Spinner) {
        View w = getCurrentFocus();
        int scrcoords[] = new int[2];
        w.getLocationOnScreen(scrcoords);
        float x = event.getRawX() + w.getLeft() - scrcoords[0];
        float y = event.getRawY() + w.getTop() - scrcoords[1];

        if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP 
 && (x < w.getLeft() || x >= w.getRight() 
 || y < w.getTop() || y > w.getBottom()) ) { 
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }
 return ret;
}

Thanks in Advance.

Look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8384067/how-to-dismiss-the-dialog-with-click-on-outside-of-the-dialog/8384124#8384124 — user370305, Nov 08 '12 at 09:35
I already check this link. but it will be possible for a dialog but not the spinner. — Ram kiran Pachigolla, Nov 08 '12 at 09:38
You have to check the touch of your activity Window (outside of Spinner). Which I mentioned in that answer. — user370305, Nov 08 '12 at 09:38
check: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7415970/close-spinner-on-click-outside-of-spinner — Paresh Mayani, Nov 08 '12 at 10:18
Thanks for your reply @PareshMayani, But I have tried it. Even in my activity I have more than 10 spinners. so I am looking the better one which should be apply for all spinners as the code which got success for Edittext above — Ram kiran Pachigolla, Nov 08 '12 at 10:33
Only ugly way I found is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7153835/customized-spinner-dialog-with-unwanted-space go through this question make Custom non model dialog for your spinner which handles touch outside of view and dismiss that dialog. — user370305, Nov 08 '12 at 12:31
Is there is no way to hide the dialog other than creating custom spinner class? — Ram kiran Pachigolla, Nov 08 '12 at 12:34
I think No. As we have to need a reference of Dialog which one is created by Spinner itself. And by default the dialog is Model dialog. So its unable to handle the outside touch event. — user370305, Nov 08 '12 at 12:37
Isn't this default behavior? :\ I just tried it a few hours ago. — st0le, Nov 08 '12 at 13:04
Why do you even need to press outside of spinner dialog? There is a dedicated back button on every android device for processes like this. — Serdar Samancıoğlu, Nov 21 '12 at 08:17
@SerdarS. yes There will be back button, But every time clicking back button is not so good method.we should simplify the app to the end user by providing this type of services. — Ram kiran Pachigolla, Nov 21 '12 at 08:58
Is necessary to take spinner..Alert Dialog can do this thing quite easily — Tofeeq Ahmad, Nov 27 '12 at 13:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 27 '12 at 13:17

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What I personaly did was to create a custom AlertDialog with setSingleChoiceItems() to do the same thing. Then I used setCanceledOnTouchOutside().

answered Nov 27 '12 at 13:17

shkschneider

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thanks for the answer. I tried it in my previous application and succeed too. But Here my requirement is for spinner. not for a AlertDialog. if you know help me pls – Ram kiran Pachigolla Nov 27 '12 at 13:35
You can just catch the `Spinner` action `onClick()` and run an `AlertDialog` I don't see what's difficult. – shkschneider Nov 27 '12 at 14:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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There's a solution for Dialog link

So why don't you try to create a custom dialog (simple example) which will looks like a spinner? Create a layout file for your dialog with radiobuttons.

When user clicks a radiobutton, call dialog.dismiss() and do necessary code next

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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answered Nov 21 '12 at 08:11

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Thanks for your answer. I already check the link before which you have provided. – Ram kiran Pachigolla Nov 21 '12 at 08:54
The point is in the stylization of `Dialog` as `Spinner`, not in the link. Try to use `Dialog`, make it similar to `Spinner` – Ilya Blokh Nov 27 '12 at 18:18

Hide a loading spinner when you click outside of it in Android

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