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Creating a custom alert view in Android using C#
July 1, 2015
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As mentioned in my earlier post, we can use the default AlertDialog class to display the alerts of screen by setting different properties and methods of it. But still there sounds like, we may need dialogs on screen which would be needed to be customized. They can be accept user inputs, can display an arranged info of an user etc.
How to do it ?
We will follow few simple steps
- Create a custom view
- Render the custom view in AlertDialog
Create a custom view
Let’s add a new layout to the project under Resources > layout.
Quick Tips : Displaying an Alert in Android using MonoDroid
Displaying an informational alert on screen
Let’s just display a quick informative popup, which will only display an alert on screen with a title and a message in it. It actually gets closed when the back button get touched.
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AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); alert.SetMessage("This is just an alert to show on the screen in order to try my alert demo."); alert.SetTitle("Alert Clicked"); alert.Show(); |
Let’s display the OK and Cancel button
We will add OK and Canel button. On click of the buttons, it will display a quick Toast message on screen in order
to differentiate which button is clicked.