How to close a Dialog in Android programmatically?

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How do I close a Dialog in android programmatically for example by a button?

Imagine I have a Dialog with a OK button on it, and want to close it by OK button, but I cant do that!

I googled and found nothing useful, and almost all of them for closing AlertDialog not a Dialog.

score 73 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '13 at 21:23

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You can call dismiss on the dialog.

answered Aug 08 '13 at 21:23

iagreen

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thank you :) thats worked! sorry about my silly Q :) thanks all :) – Amir Hossein Ghasemi Aug 08 '13 at 21:27
I used .setPositiveButton("ok ", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { dismissDialog(DIALOG_Success); } }) but when I show diaolog again,dialog shows old message.I wrote Activity.this.showDialog(DIALOG_Success,arg); can you help me? – Fatemeh Nov 18 '16 at 08:36

Philipp Jahoda · Answer 2 · 2013-08-08T21:32:34.750

This is an example of how to create a AlertDialog with 2 Buttons (OK and cancel). When clicking the cancel button,

dialog.dismiss()

is called to close the dialog.

From anywhere outside, you could call

builder.dismiss();

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
            builder.setMessage("Some message.")
                   .setPositiveButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                       public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                           // do something
                       }
                   })
                   .setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                       public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                           dialog.dismiss();
                       }
                   });

            builder.show();

You need to call the `.create()` method on `builder` to have access to `dismiss()`. First do `setNegativeButton(...).create();`, then `builder.dismiss();` — karlingen, Apr 03 '23 at 19:25

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 21:23

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dialog.dismiss();

Only this line will close it. :-)

Implement it in the onClickListener.

answered Aug 08 '13 at 21:23

Helmisek

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it's need just dismiss() method from inside of dialog class! thank you Helmisek :) – Amir Hossein Ghasemi Aug 08 '13 at 21:30
Sure just call `dismiss()` method of DialogFragment – Karue Benson Karue Jun 22 '16 at 00:04

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 21:40

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You can use the methods cancel() or dismiss(). The method cancel() essentially the same as calling dismiss(), but it will also call your DialogInterface.OnCancelListener (if registered).

answered Aug 08 '13 at 21:40

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Sergey Emeliyanov · Answer 5 · 2019-06-07T10:54:02.670

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Alternative to the dismiss(); option, if you have your dialog as a separate Activity (s.a. DialogActivity), another way to close it is to call:

   finish();

Call this method inside the OnClickListener class' onClick() method.

This will call the onPause(), onStop() and onDestroy() methods consequently and kill the current activity - same as Back button.

edited Jun 07 '19 at 10:54

answered Sep 07 '17 at 20:37

Sergey Emeliyanov

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How to close a Dialog in Android programmatically?

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