Sams Teach Yourself Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition

Hour 11. Using Dialogs to Collect User Input

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Working with activity dialogs

• Using DatePickerDialog

• Handling and formatting date information

• Building custom dialogs

In this hour, you continue to add features to the Been There, Done That! settings screen. Specifically, you learn about Android activity dialogs and implement several within the QuizSettingsActivity class. Each dialog is specially designed to collect a specific type of input from the user. First, you implement a DatePickerDialog to collect the user’s date of birth and then you build a custom dialog to enable the user to change his or her password.

Working with Activity Dialogs

There is only so much screen real estate available on a device, but ...