Programmatically close dialog on item click

[danwguy]

I am using the sample to create a new blur dialog and everything is working great, when I select an item from the list I start a new activity, and it all works great, but if I hit the back button in the action bar when I get back to the activity that has the blurred dialog the dialog is still open. I have to click somewhere on the screen that is not in the dialog to make it go away. I can't find a way to programmatically close the dialog when a user selects an item in the dialog list.

I am using the following method to create the dialog in a fragment...

@Override
    @NonNull
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        final AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
        View view = getActivity().getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.fragment_profile_dialog, null);
        TextView text = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.follow_or_unfollow);
        if(isSelf) {
            text.setText("Edit Profile");
        } else {
           text.setText((isFollowing) ? "UnFollow" : "Follow");
        }
        RelativeLayout followButton = (RelativeLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.follow_layout);
        RelativeLayout chatButton = (RelativeLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.chat_layout);


        followButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                //NEED TO DISMISS DIALOG WINDOW HERE
                if(isSelf) {
                    //activate ProfileEditActivity
                    getActivity().startActivity(new Intent(getActivity(), EditProfileActivity.class));
                } else {
                    Map<String, Object> updates = new HashMap<>();
                    if(isFollowing) {
                        //unfollow
                        updates.put("/following/" + user.getUid() + "/users/" + userID, null);
                        updates.put("/followers/" + userID + "/users/" + user.getUid(), null);
                    } else {
                        updates.put("/following/" + user.getUid() + "/users/" + userID, true);
                        updates.put("/followers/" + userID + "/users/" + user.getUid(), true);
                        //follow
                    }
                    database.getReference().updateChildren(updates);
                    getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().remove(ProfileDialogFragment.this).commit();
                }
            }
        });

        chatButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                Toast.makeText(getContext(), "Implement the start activity for chat", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
        builder.setView(view);
        return builder.create();
    }

I don't see any example of how to close the dialog when a user selects an item from the dialog window. Please help, I am still pretty new to android and have no idea how to get this dialog to close once the user selects an item in the dialog. Thank you

[tbarthel-fr]

Hi (=

First of all, thanks for your interest in this quite old project.

If I understood well, you might simply need to call dismiss() just before/after the startActvity

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DialogFragment.html#dismiss()