How to prevent DialogFragment from being dismissed when activity gets resumed

Question

I have an Activity which shows a DialogFragment when an event occurs in the Activity. When my application is running the user can press home button to make the app run in background. When app is running in background, as soon as the event occurs, the activity should show the DialogFragment, so that when user resumes the app the dialog should be on top of the activity, however I am not getting the results I want. As soon as I resume the app from launcher icon or notification, the dialog does not appear on the activity.

Here is my DialogFragment class:

public static class MyDialog extends DialogFragment {

    public static DialogInterface.OnClickListener mListener;
    public static String mTitle, mBody;
    public static boolean mConfirm;

    public static MyDialog getInstance(String body, boolean confirm,
            DialogInterface.OnClickListener listener) {
        mListener = listener;
        mTitle = "MyDialog";
        mBody = body;
        mConfirm = confirm;
        MyDialog fragment = new MyDialog();
        return fragment;
    }

    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedIntanceState) {
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity())
        .setTitle(mTitle).setMessage(mBody)
        .setPositiveButton("Ok", mListener);
        if (mConfirm)
            builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel", mListener);
        return builder.create();
    }
}

The dialog works fine when activity is in foreground. Here is how I show the dialog:

MyDialog.getInstance("This is dialog body text", true, 
                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                        if (which == DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE) {
                            // positive button pressed
                        }else //negative button pressed
                    }
        }).show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "dialog");

I want a dialog that remains on the activity even if the activity is in background, and as soon as I resume the activity, the dialog should be on top of the activity. How can I achieve this behavior?

this answer might help you? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14657490/how-to-properly-retain-a-dialogfragment-through-rotation — Leo, Jul 30 '14 at 09:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 30 '14 at 08:47

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You can declare a global boolean to determine if you should show the dialog or not. Then in your activity onResume() method you show the dialog depending on the boolean value.

If the user is finished interacting with the dialog you can set this boolean to false which will cause it not to show again when your activity is in the foreground (onResume).

edited Jul 30 '14 at 08:47

Leo

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answered Jul 30 '14 at 08:37

Willie Nel

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I though about the same solution as you suggested, but I think there should be a proper way to achieve that, and looking for that answer. Thank you. – qurban Jul 30 '14 at 08:40
Unfortunately you can't show a DialogFragment while your activity is in the background as you can't commit a fragment transaction after onPause() has occurred. The only way to achieve this sort of functionality that I know of is to save some sort of flag to your SharedPreferences when your event has finished and then when your activity resumes you read that flag back to know if you must show a dialog or not. – Willie Nel Jul 30 '14 at 08:46

elmorabea · Answer 2 · 2020-01-08T21:52:15.650

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Try using Fragment's or Activity's showDialog(int) methods and your dialog will be retained automatically.

edited Jan 08 '20 at 21:52

answered Jul 30 '14 at 09:26

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link is broken and not secure please remove it – Vivek Jan 08 '20 at 16:14

How to prevent DialogFragment from being dismissed when activity gets resumed

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