Pro Android 4

Understanding Dialog Fragments

In this section, you learn how to use dialog fragments to present a simple alert dialog and a custom dialog that is used to collect prompt text.

DialogFragment Basics

Before we show you working examples of a prompt dialog and an alert dialog, we would like to cover the high-level idea of dialog fragments. Dialog-related functionality uses a class called DialogFragment. A DialogFragment is derived from the class Fragment and behaves much like a fragment. You will then use the DialogFragment as the base class for your dialogs. Once you have a derived dialog from this class such as

public class MyDialogFragment extends DialogFragment { ... }

you can then show this dialog fragment MyDialogFragment as a dialog using ...