AlertDialog setContentView taking over screen

Question

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but I'm having a hard time setting a custom view for the body of an AlertDialog. Here's what I'm doing to set the custom view:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    this.setContentView(View.inflate(getContext(), R.layout.dialog_body, null));
}

Instead of setting the content of the body of the AlertDialog, the view is placed over the entire screen. How do I get the view just to replace the AlertDialog message body?

Answer 1

You are setting the activity's view by calling setContentView which is why it takes up the entire screen. You are also doing it in the onCreate method of what I assume is the activity, you need to do it in the onCreateDialog method.

Heres a link to the docs and an example.

public Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {

            Dialog dialog = null;
            AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(app);
            AlertDialog alert = null;

            builder.setTitle("A title") 
                   .setCancelable(true)
                   .setView(myView);
                alert = builder.create();
                return alert;

}