Showing an AlertDialog from Receiver

Question

How do i show an AlertDialog from receiver class. My receiver class receives by time of my Alarm using AlarmManager. And, my alertdialog can show if my application is not opened also.

How can i achieve this? Thanks.

Do you place any buttons in your alertdialog. Or just showing some details only. — Praveenkumar, Mar 12 '12 at 13:26
Hi, again you thanks for your response. I just shows some details to alertdialog. Not any buttons. — user1258711, Mar 12 '12 at 13:29
You can, check out this stackoverflow thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3835160/how-can-i-display-a-dialog-from-an-android-broadcast-receiver — Soham, Mar 12 '12 at 13:38

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '12 at 13:36

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There is not possible to create AlertDialog from Broadcast Receiver. But there is one way to accomplish this task.

Create a activity and set the theme as a dialog.
OnReceive() method of your Broadcast Receiver start the activity which you had create in 1st step
You have to set the flag Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK to start the activity from the broadcast receiver.

So you code will looks like below

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    Intent i = new Intent(context, yourDialogActivity.class);
    i .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); 
    context.startActivity(i);
}

answered Mar 12 '12 at 13:36

Dharmendra

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Thanks for your response. I'll check and let you know. – user1258711 Mar 12 '12 at 13:37
@Dharmendra thanks for ur ans. Here i would like to hide the main activity and when i trigger the event i would like my dialog to be shown? how can i achieve this? – AndroidOptimist Dec 18 '13 at 09:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '12 at 13:35

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Yes, you can do like this. Just start one activity class from your receiver using Intent and in that activity class just use the code from this Blog

Change that class with whatever you needs for AlertDialog. This will display the when your application closed also. Hope this helps you.

answered Mar 12 '12 at 13:35

Praveenkumar

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@Praveen the link is not valid – AndroidOptimist Dec 18 '13 at 09:43
@AndroidOptimist No its working fine. Check again - http://www.sherif.mobi/2011/08/creating-global-dialogs.html – Praveenkumar Dec 18 '13 at 09:44
@Praveen ya now its working, but just before the page shown error. Sorry and thanks – AndroidOptimist Dec 18 '13 at 09:47
@AndroidOptimist Its okay. No problem – Praveenkumar Dec 18 '13 at 09:48
@Praveen i would like to hide the main activity and when i trigger the receiver i would like my dialog to be shown. How to achieve this? – AndroidOptimist Dec 18 '13 at 09:52
@AndroidOptimist You please simply refer that example. – Praveenkumar Dec 18 '13 at 09:53
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/43410/discussion-between-androidoptimist-and-praveen) – AndroidOptimist Dec 18 '13 at 09:54

Showing an AlertDialog from Receiver

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