You can't control the size of AlertDialog like that.  The point of
AlertDialog is an easy way to through up various standard kinds of dialogs
with a standard appearance that you don't control very much.  If you want
more control, use Dialog.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:20 PM, sat <sathvikm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Can you point me to some examples where AlertDialogs are built using
> Dialog class ? I have seen Custom dialog box code , where I can refer
> to XML and set the contentView.
> But my requirement is, depending on the array of strings I would like
> to show them as a textview inside an AlertDialog , which is done by
> default AlertDialog.Builder.
>
> On Dec 10, 11:56 pm, Doug Gordon <gordo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In a similar situation, I stopped using AlertDialog and went directly
> > to the Dialog class. You can do everything you need to do that way,
> > but a bit more complex since you don't get some of the shortcuts that
> > AlertDialog provides.
> >
> >   Doug Gordon
> >
> > On Dec 10, 7:39 am, sat <sathvikm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
> > >             builder.setTitle("Title");
> > >             builder.setItems(items, new
> > > DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
> > >                 public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int item)
> > > {
> > >                     Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
> > > items[item], Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
> > >                 }
> > >             });
> > >             AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
> >
> > > I am using above code to show alert dialog , By default it fills the
> > > screen in width and wrap_content in height.
> > > How to control the width and height of default alert dialog ?
> > > I tried , alert.getWindow().setLayout(100,100); // It dint work.
> > > How to get the layout params on the alert window and set manually the
> > > width and height ?
>
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