Android Pop-up message

Question

I'm trying to get a pop up text box, with some disclaimer and app info at the start of my Android application's launch. Does anyone know how to implement this? Also could it read from a txt file?

Thanks

Solution 1

If you want a Popup that closes automatically, you should look for Toasts. But if you want a dialog that the user has to close first before proceeding, you should look for a Dialog.

For both approaches it is possible to read a text file with the text you want to display. But you could also hardcode the text or use R.String to set the text.

Solution 2

You can use Dialog to create this easily

create a Dialog instance using the context

Dialog dialog = new Dialog(contex);

You can design your layout as you like.

You can add this layout to your dialog by dialog.setContentView(R.layout.popupview);//popup view is the layout you created

then you can access its content (textviews, etc.) by using findViewById method

TextView txt = (TextView)dialog.findViewById(R.id.textbox);

you can add any text here. the text can be stored in the String.xml file in res\values.

txt.setText(getString(R.string.message));

then finally show the pop up menu

dialog.show();

more information http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Dialog.html

Solution 3

Use This And Call This In OnCreate Method In Which Activity You Want

public void popupMessage(){
        AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        alertDialogBuilder.setMessage("No Internet Connection. Check Your Wifi Or enter code hereMobile Data.");
        alertDialogBuilder.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_no_internet);
        alertDialogBuilder.setTitle("Connection Failed");
        alertDialogBuilder.setNegativeButton("ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){

            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {
                Log.d("internet","Ok btn pressed");
                // add these two lines, if you wish to close the app:
                finishAffinity();
                System.exit(0);
            }
        });
        AlertDialog alertDialog = alertDialogBuilder.create();
        alertDialog.show();
    }

Solution 4

Suppose you want to set a pop-up text box for clicking a button lets say bt whose id is button, then code using Toast will somewhat look like this:

Button bt;
bt = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
bt.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {            
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"The text you want to display",Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
}

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Comments

[Andy Weinstein]

Try AlertDialog: stackoverflow.com/questions/26097513/… - first answer has example code.

[mehmet]

Your approach is very good, how to do it for 2 messages that come in handy for example toast