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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Concurrency and Error Handling Building an Alert Dialog

Sambhav Anand
Sambhav Anand
2,010 Points

I am totally stuck and don't know what to do

Our builder is ready! Add a new AlertDialog variable and create it from the builder. Then return it (instead of null). This is the question that I'm stuck on.

AlertDialogFragment.java
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class AlertDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {

    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        Context context = getActivity();
      AlertDialog.Builder  builder= new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
      builder.setTitle("Sorry!")
        .setMessage("Try again!")
        .setPositiveButton("OK",null);

        // Insert code here!

        return null;
    }
}
MovieActivity.java
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import java.io.IOException;

public class MovieActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_movie);

        // Get some movie information!
        String apiUrl = "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json?apikey=xyz&q=hobbit";
        OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
        Request request = new Request.Builder()
                .url(apiUrl)
                .build();

        Call call = client.newCall(request);
        call.enqueue(new Callback() {
            @Override
            public void onFailure(Request request, IOException e) {


            }

            @Override
            public void onResponse(Response response) throws IOException { }
        });
    }
}

1 Answer

Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

Hey there Sambhav!

You almost got it! To finish task 3, all you need to do is create the dialog and return it - right now you are returning null.

So, you're going to want to create a new AlertDialog variable, running the .create() method from the builder. After that, return this new variable and you should pass task 3.


As for task 4, try this yourself but, if you get stuck, I'll also leave you this explanation as to what you want to do:

Here, you will want to create a new AlertDialogFragment variable and run the .show() method from this variable, using getFragmentManager() and "error_dialog" as the two parameters.


As always, if there's any more problems you have or if you don't understand something here, give me a shout and I'll try my best to further explain it :)