I'm fairly new to Android development and I've created my first "real" application that does the following:
- Launches MainActivity
MainActivity processes Extra Data and then displays a
ViewDialog
that extendsDialog
.ViewDialog
has ashowDialog()
method that does the following to setup and display theDialog
:protected void showDialog(final Activity activity) { dialog = new Dialog(activity); dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); dialog.setCancelable(false); dialog.setContentView(dialog_layout); // Set background color of the dialog ConstraintLayout currentLayout = (ConstraintLayout) dialog.findViewById(R.id.Dialog); // setup of views etc ... // Finally dislay `Dialog` dialog.show(); // Method called to start a `DialogTimer` which extends `CountDownTimer` }
MainActivity shows the
ViewDialog
as follows:public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { private static Context appContext; private static ViewDialog notify; protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { // methods and processing etc... // time to display dialog notify = new ViewDialog(mParameters, mThemeHandler ); // ******************** Show dialog box ******************* notify.showDialog(activity: this); // showDialog just calls `Dialog.show()` notify.ApplyTheme(); }
When the timer expires or the user presses a button the
ViewDialog
is closed and the application is finished with the following code:mButton1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { CancelTimer(); activity.finishAndRemoveTask(); dialog.dismiss();
The problem is that when the ViewDialog
is dismissed I can occasionally see what looks like a message that is displaying the activities android:label
that is setup in the AndroidManifest file.
I'm not sure why this happens, but I assume it's displaying some item of the MainActivity
layout when the ViewDialog
closes that uses it's own dialog_layout
layout file.
I've fiddled with so many different things and changed code/layouts etc and I haven't been able to find my error.
What are some pointers and hints that will help me fix this? I'm happy to provide more details if needed.
The layout and manifest files are here:
- manifest https://pastebin.com/GL70FxGh
- activity_main.xml https://pastebin.com/qDVa0LrN
- dialog_layout.xml https://pastebin.com/RC4e6W9T
It turns out that if I change:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
to
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
the problem goes away. I don't know why, but I'll take it.