Change button's text in AlertDialog

Question

I need to change positive button's text of an AlertBox from nothing to OK or Add according to the entered text. I have the following code for the AlertBox creation and displaying:

public void show() {
    View inputView = LinearLayout.inflate(mContext, R.layout.goal_tag_input, null);
    AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(mContext);
    builder.setView(inputView);
    mInput = inputView.findViewById(R.id.goal_tag_input);
    mInput.addTextChangedListener(mTagNameTextWatcher);
    List<Tag> availableTags = AppDatabase.getInstance(mContext).tagDao().getAll();
    mAvailableTagLabels = new ArrayList<>();
    for (Tag tag : availableTags) {
        mAvailableTagLabels.add(tag.getName());
    }
    ArrayAdapter<String> inputAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(mContext, 
    android.R.layout.select_dialog_item, mAvailableTagLabels);
    mInput.setAdapter(inputAdapter);
    builder.setCancelable(true);
    builder.setPositiveButton("", mAddTagClickListener);
    builder.setNegativeButton(R.string.Cancel, null);
    mDialog = builder.create();
    mDialog.show();
}

Also I have a TextWatcher implementation:

private TextWatcher mTagNameTextWatcher = new TextWatcher() {
    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {}

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        String tagName = mInput.getText().toString();
        if (tagName.trim() != "") {
            Button buttonPositive = mDialog.getButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE);
            if (mAvailableTagLabels.contains(tagName)) {
                buttonPositive.setText(R.string.OK);
            } else {
                buttonPositive.setText(R.string.Add);
            }
        }
    }
};

During debugging I observed that the text value of the buttonPositive is changed appropriately, but it is not reflected in the interface. Do you have any ideas why is it so? I checked this answer but it didn't help.

@MohammadAli I need to change positive button's text from nothing to OK or Add according to the entered text. — Vitalii Isaenko, May 31 '18 at 12:32
refer this link : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26474928/android-set-text-in-alert-dialog?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa — Ali, May 31 '18 at 12:36
try this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22436076/dynamically-change-button-text-in-alert-dialog — primo, May 31 '18 at 12:37
@primo thank you, I referred to this link in my question, and the anwer there wasn't helpful for me. — Vitalii Isaenko, May 31 '18 at 12:48

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '18 at 21:28

Well, it appeared that the problem was in the setting a positive button using the AlertDialog builder here: builder.setPositiveButton("", mAddTagClickListener);. Apparently, a button is not created if you pass an empty string as the first argument. The minute I tried to change it to (at least) one-space-string - everything began to work as expected.
Later on I changed the approach to enabling/disabling the button.

Quick learner · Answer 2 · 2018-05-31T12:45:23.063

Well you can try this

 public void show() {
        View inputView = LinearLayout.inflate(AppIntroActivity.this, R.layout.goal_tag_input, null);
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(AppIntroActivity.this);
        builder.setView(inputView);
       final EditText mInput =(EditText) inputView.findViewById(R.id.goal_tag_input);
        final Button buttonPositive = (Button) inputView.findViewById(R.id.button_id);
        mInput.addTextChangedListener( new TextWatcher() {
            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {}

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
                String tagName = mInput.getText().toString();
                if (tagName.trim() != "") {
                    if (mAvailableTagLabels.contains(tagName)) {
                    buttonPositive.setText(R.string.OK);
                } else {
                    buttonPositive.setText(R.string.Add);
                }
                }
            }
        };);
        List<Tag> availableTags = AppDatabase.getInstance(mContext).tagDao().getAll();
        mAvailableTagLabels = new ArrayList<>();
        for (Tag tag : availableTags) {
            mAvailableTagLabels.add(tag.getName());
        }
        ArrayAdapter<String> inputAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(mContext,
                android.R.layout.select_dialog_item, mAvailableTagLabels);
        mInput.setAdapter(inputAdapter);
        builder.setCancelable(true);
        builder.setPositiveButton("", mAddTagClickListener);
        builder.setNegativeButton(R.string.Cancel, null);
        mDialog = builder.create();
        mDialog.show();
    }

How can I get an id of the button? `final Button buttonPositive = (Button) inputView.findViewById(R.id.button_id);`. In general, did you want just to move `TextWatcher` implementation in the show method, or what was your intention? — Vitalii Isaenko, May 31 '18 at 13:09
just add the Button in dialog xml and manage the text change in listener — Quick learner, May 31 '18 at 13:10
I don't get what you mean. Have you worked with `AlertDialog` before? There is no layout for it. Button is created here: `builder.setPositiveButton("", mAddTagClickListener);` — Vitalii Isaenko, May 31 '18 at 13:14
add button in goal_tag_input layout and in on text change listener just manage the text — Quick learner, May 31 '18 at 13:16
check the second answer using this , which shows how to show a dialog without using alert dialog builder — Quick learner, May 31 '18 at 13:19
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13341560/how-to-create-a-custom-dialog-box-in-android — Quick learner, May 31 '18 at 13:19
I would not like to reinvent the wheel, I believe it is not the situation when creation of the custom dialog box would be justified. Anyway, thank you for your time! — Vitalii Isaenko, Jun 07 '18 at 21:31

Change button's text in AlertDialog

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