prevent user from being able to close a dialog with a new alert option

[sts-ryan-holton]

Feature Request

Plugin

• Dialog

Description

When using the Capacitor Dialog plugin and using the alert method, I'd like to be able to pass some kind of boolean value, or empty string to the buttonTitle to remove the action button and prevent the user from being able to dismiss the dialog.

Platform(s)

• IOS
• Android

Preferred Solution

Currently, I'm passing an empty string to the buttonTitle ket of the alert function, although this does hide the button text, the button is still there and isn't closable.

Additional Context

Seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJwBNWwNlTk

[jcesarmobile]

And how would you close the dialog then?

[sts-ryan-holton]

@jcesarmobile in my example, I'm presenting an alert whilst checking the current app version against a centralised JSON endpoint on my server. If there's a new major version for the app, I want to force the user to update to this since the app won't work with the new schema on my server.

I'd like an option like this:

await this.$CapacitorDialog.alert({
  title: "Important app update",
  message: "You must update to continue.",
  buttonTitle: "",
  // TODO:
  dismissable: false
})

Right now, I don't let the user proceed, so they'll press the "Ok" button and all they see is the splash screen... forever.

[ricardo-muina]

Hi @jcesarmobile, I have this error too and fixed it by adding a new BOOLEAN "dismissible" property to the Dialog plugin to all functions (alert, confirm, prompt), and then, on the Dialog.java and dialogPlugin.java, check for this property and add this line in case of that value being false in every method,
if (dismissible != null && !dismissible) { builder.setCancelable(false); }