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Android Build a Weather App Concurrency and Error Handling What To Do When the Network is Down

Brian Haucke
Brian Haucke
13,717 Points
Posted by Brian Haucke
Brian Haucke
13,717 Points

How to make network_unavailable_message into a dialog fragment

I'm stumped on this one. Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction? I'm thinking I'll be using alertUserAboutError(), but I don't know how to get the 'network_unavailable_message' to show up on the dialog. Thanks.

Brian Haucke
Brian Haucke
13,717 Points
Brian Haucke
Brian Haucke
13,717 Points

private boolean isNetworkAvailable() {

   ConnectivityManager manager = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
   NetworkInfo networkInfo = manager.getActiveNetworkInfo();

   boolean isAvailable = false;
   if (networkInfo != null && networkInfo.isConnected()){
       isAvailable = true;
   }
   else {
       Toast.makeText(this, getString(R.string.network_unavailable_message), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
       //alertUserAboutError();
   }
   return isAvailable;

}

private void alertUserAboutError() {

   AlertDialogFragment dialog = new AlertDialogFragment();
   dialog.show(getFragmentManager(), "error_dialog");

} }

2 Answers

Mohammed Safiulla D
Mohammed Safiulla D
17,044 Points
Mohammed Safiulla D
Mohammed Safiulla D
17,044 Points

You can pass the message string when calling the alertUserAboutError method, then inside alertUserAboutError create a bundle with the string and pass this to the dialog (object of AlertDialogFragment) using setArgument(). So, depending on where you call the alertUserAboutError you get the network unavailable message string or the unsuccessful response string. In the AlertDialogFragment receive this bundle using (getArguments()) and use the message from the arguments as the text you display in the dialog (builder.setMessage()).
So your code should look like, 

private boolean isNetworkAvailable() {
   ConnectivityManager manager = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
   NetworkInfo networkInfo = manager.getActiveNetworkInfo();

   boolean isAvailable = false;
   if (networkInfo != null && networkInfo.isConnected()){
       isAvailable = true;
   }
   else {
       alertUserAboutError(getString(R.string.network_unavailable_message));
   }
   return isAvailable;
}

Modiy your alertUserAboutError() as the following:

private void alertUserAboutError(String message) {
   AlertDialogFragment dialog = new AlertDialogFragment();
   arg.putString("message_key",message);
   AlertDialogFragment dialog = new AlertDialogFragment();
   dialog.setArguments(arg);
   dialog.show(getFragmentManager(), "error_dialog");
}

Finally, in your AlertDialogFragment add get the bundle in the onCreate method:

public Dialog onCreateDialog(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        Context context = getActivity();
        Bundle bundle = getArguments();
        String message = bundle.getString("message_key"));
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
        builder.setTitle(R.string.error_dialog_title)
                .setMessage(message);
        builder.setPositiveButton(R.string.error_dialog_ok_button_text,null);
        return builder.create();
    }

Hope this helps.

Pieter-Andries van der Berg
Pieter-Andries van der Berg
7,468 Points
Pieter-Andries van der Berg
Pieter-Andries van der Berg
7,468 Points

This is the correct method alertUserAboutError code:

private void alertUserAboutError(int message) {
        AlertDialogFragment dialog = new AlertDialogFragment();
        Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
        bundle.putInt("message_key",message);
        dialog.setArguments(bundle);
        dialog.show(getSupportFragmentManager(),"error_dialog");
    }

//and AlertDialogFragment:

public class AlertDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {
    @NonNull
    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        Context context = getActivity();
        Bundle bundle = getArguments();
        int message = bundle.getInt("message_key");
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
        builder.setTitle(getString(R.string.error_title))
        .setMessage(message);
        builder.setPositiveButton(getString(R.string.error_button_ok_text),null);

        return builder.create();
    }
}