android prompt user's input using a dialog.

Question

Hello I would like to prompt the user to give me input in my android application using a dialog. this is what I have found:

AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

alert.setTitle("Title");
alert.setMessage("Message");

// Set an EditText view to get user input 
final EditText input = new EditText(this);
alert.setView(input);

alert.setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
String value = input.getText();
 // Do something with value!
 }
});

alert.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
 public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
     // Canceled.
}
});

 alert.show();

but this gives me :

android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token null is not for an application

is there any problem on my code it seems like a null argument is passed on the dialog but I can't find out what is the problem.

regards maxsap.

Answer 1

Hi there. When I ran your code in a new project, it worked fine. So probably "this" that you are using

• is not an activity
• is not the activity in view i.e. there might be a parent activity. If it is the child of some activity, use getParent() instead of "this".
• is null

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

sorry for this but I can't comment all this text stackoverflow doesn't let me. I am doing this on my main activity : public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    if(somecondition){
        //something
    }else{
        AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this.getApplicationContext());

        alert.setTitle("Title");
        alert.setMessage("Message");

        // Set an EditText view to get user input 
        final EditText input = new EditText(this.getApplicationContext());
        alert.setView(input);

        alert.setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
          Editable value = input.getText();
          // Do something with value!
          }
        });

        alert.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
          public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            // Canceled.
          }
        });

        alert.show();
    }
}      

but still having the same problem.