Loader manager inside Dialog

Question

I'm trying to create custom Dialog with ListView inside it. For loading data from DB I tried to use LoaderManager, but there is no method getLoaderManager() in Dialog class.Does anybody know how can I get it? Or how can I use LoaderManager inside Dialog.

Answer 1

You could try and extend DialogFragment instead; inside DialogFragment custom class you should have visibility to getLoaderManager() method.

Answer 2

A dialog is usually created and managed by an Activity, which is its owner. You could get this Activity by calling Dialog.getOwnerActivity()[1] and use its LoaderManager.

Be careful though, the documentation states that this method may in some cases return null.

[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Dialog.html#getOwnerActivity()