How to customise the alertdialog in Android?

Question

I have an AlertDialog in my application, for which I want to have a background for the whole dialog, and a background and text color for the 2 buttons. I cannot seem to customise the alertDialog. How can I do it? I want the dialog to look like the image below.

@BenP. thanks,i checked that out, and that solved my problem! — Ian Bell, Mar 02 '21 at 10:26
@ADM I used `MaterialAlertDialogBuilder` as suggested by Ben above — Ian Bell, Mar 02 '21 at 10:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '21 at 04:51

Hmm, basic step are:

Create your custom layout
Create dialog builder and set the custom view. (builder.setView(your_custom_view))

There are a ton of tutorials out there, even here in SOF. Please do a search first.

https://suragch.medium.com/creating-a-custom-alertdialog-bae919d2efa5 https://www.journaldev.com/22153/android-custom-alert-dialog

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '21 at 05:08

First, create your layout.xml for the dialog, and then for the example codes to call your dialog is like

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context, R.style.AlertDialog);
View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.yourlayout, null);
builder.setView(view);
final androidx.appcompat.app.AlertDialog alertDialog = builder.create();
if (alertDialog.getWindow() != null) {
alertDialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(0));
}
alertDialog.setCancelable(true);
alertDialog.show();

and if you want to declare your view inside your layout.xml

TextView txexample = view.findViewById(R.id.txexample);

How to customise the alertdialog in Android?

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