dialog boxes in the Android API

Four dialog custom subclasses are available in the Android API:

Alertdialog

ProgressDialog

Datepackerdialog

Timepickerdialog

You can also derive your own dialog subclasses.

In any activity, you can usually use the Oncreatedialog (this) method to create a basic dialog box. Android uses this method to track the dialog boxes that are created

For example: What is the activity of this dialog box and what is the status of it now?

To display a dialog box that has already been created, you can use the ShowDialog (int) method, where the parameter specifies the number of the dialog box you want to display. To hide or close a dialog object,

You can use the DismissDialog (int) method so that the dialog object is purged from memory and from the application.

dialog boxes in the Android API