Custom dialog too small

Question

I have an android activity that implements a custom dialog.The application is running ok but the dialog is too small,i want to display a bigger dialog.How can i achieve this? Here is my layout xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@color/white"
android:orientation="vertical" >

         <LinearLayout 
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:orientation="vertical"
         android:background="@drawable/view_more_borders">

         <LinearLayout 
             android:layout_width="match_parent"
             android:layout_height="match_parent"
             android:layout_weight="1"
             android:orientation="horizontal"
             android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
             android:gravity="center_vertical">

             <TextView
                 android:id="@+id/share_amount"
                 android:layout_width="0dp"
                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                 android:layout_weight="1"
                 android:text="Company Name:"
                 android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                 android:textColor="@color/nice_blue"
                 android:typeface="sans" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textViewCompanyName"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="1.80"
                android:text=" "
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />

         </LinearLayout>


         <LinearLayout 
             android:layout_width="match_parent"
             android:layout_height="match_parent"
             android:layout_weight="1"
             android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
             android:gravity="center_vertical">

             <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textView5"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="Price per share:"

                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                android:textColor="@color/nice_blue" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textViewprice_pershare"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="2"
                android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/Yesterday"
                android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/Yesterday"
                android:layout_marginLeft="38dp"
                android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/company"
                android:text=" "
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />
         </LinearLayout>

         <LinearLayout 
             android:layout_width="match_parent"
             android:layout_height="match_parent"
             android:layout_weight="1"
             android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
             android:gravity="center_vertical">

              <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/textView4"
                  android:layout_width="0dp"
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_weight="1"
                  android:text="Total cost:"

                  android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                  android:textColor="@color/nice_blue" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textview_totalcost"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="2"
                android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/Yesterday"
                android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/Yesterday"
                android:layout_marginLeft="38dp"
                android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/company"
                android:text=" "
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />
         </LinearLayout>


         <LinearLayout 
             android:layout_width="match_parent"
             android:layout_height="match_parent"
             android:layout_weight="1"
             android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
             android:gravity="center_vertical">

                 <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView3"
                     android:layout_width="0dp"
                     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                     android:layout_weight="1"
                     android:text="Number of shares:"

                     android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                     android:textColor="@color/nice_blue" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/shareNumber"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="2"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:inputType="number"
                android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
                android:textSize="12sp"
                 >

            <requestFocus />
            </EditText>
         </LinearLayout>

         <LinearLayout 
             android:layout_width="match_parent"
             android:layout_height="match_parent"
             android:layout_weight="1"
             android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
             android:gravity="center_vertical">


              <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="Payment method:"

                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                android:textColor="@color/nice_blue" />

             <Spinner
                 android:id="@+id/spinner_paymentmode"
                 android:layout_width="0dp"
                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                 android:layout_weight="2" />

         </LinearLayout>   
     </LinearLayout>
     <Button
    android:id="@+id/button_buy_shares"
    style="@style/ButtonText"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/blue_button"
    android:text="Buy" />

And here is my output.I want to increase the width and height of the dialog.

And my java file

public class MyDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {

public MyDialogFragment() {

}

private EditText mEditText;

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.dialogfragment, container);
    // mEditText = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.txt_your_name);
    // getDialog().setTitle("Hello");
    getDialog().requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

    return view;
}
}

Answer 1

Change your dialog dimension on runtime:

yourDialog.show();
yourDialog.getWindow().setLayout((6 * width)/7, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

You can do that for both dimension, in my example i only changed the width. Hope it helps!

EDIT

I forgot to mention where i took width:

DisplayMetrics metrics = getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
int width = metrics.widthPixels;
int height = metrics.heightPixels;

EDIT 2

Try this code:

Dialog yourDialog = dialogFragment.getDialog();
yourDialog.getWindow().setLayout((6 * width)/7, (4 * height)/5);

Answer 2

Setting android:minWidth and android:minHeight in the custom layout does the trick for me.

Answer 3

put below line in onCreate

setStyle(DialogFragment.STYLE_NO_TITLE, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light_Dialog_NoActionBar_MinWidth);

original answer

Answer 4

<style name="full_screen_dialog" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowIsFloating">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
    <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@android:style/Animation.Dialog</item>
    <item name="android:windowSoftInputMode">stateUnspecified|adjustPan</item>
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
    <item name="android:minWidth" type="dimen">600dp</item>
</style>

Use this in style.xml file and use this style in dialog class

Answer 5

Dialogs are sized by their content. You can add padding and margins on the outer layout to consume more space, but that will not redistribute the views inside.

Answer 6

Add android:minWidth / android:minHeight to your root view. See example below:

<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:minWidth="300dp"
android:minHeight="500dp">

Answer 7

The right solution is to override the onCreateDialog method rather than onCreateView, and create your dialog with a AlertDialog.Builder, as explained in the doc: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DialogFragment.html#AlertDialog

Answer 8

The trick worked for me

  override fun onStart() {
        super.onStart()
        val metrics: DisplayMetrics = resources.displayMetrics
        val width: Int = metrics.widthPixels
        dialog?.window?.setLayout(width - 58, 
        ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
    }

Answer 9

Try this

For setting dialog width and height as per device screen size

    Display display;
    int DisplayWidth, DisplayHeight, DialogWidth, DialogHeight;
    Dialog dialog;

display =((WindowManager)activity_context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
        DisplayWidth = display.getWidth();
        DisplayHeight = display.getHeight();

        if(DisplayHeight > DisplayWidth)
        {
            DialogWidth = (6 * DisplayWidth) / 7 ;
            DialogHeight = (4 * DisplayHeight) / 5 ;
        }
        else
        {
            DialogWidth = (6 * DisplayWidth) / 9 ;
            DialogHeight = (4 * DisplayHeight) / 5 ;
        }

        dialog = new Dialog(activity_context);

          // Set your dialog width and height dynamically as per your screen.

        Window window = dialog.getWindow();
        window.setLayout(DialogWidth,DialogHeight);
        window.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);

        dialog.show();

Answer 10

try to set android:layout_height to some value for base LinearLayout

for example

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"

<!-- right here -->
    android:layout_height="100dp"

android:background="@color/white"
android:orientation="vertical" >

Answer 11

I configured my project so that the default dialog theme for DialogFragments has a minimum width.

set the app's theme to your custom theme in the AndroidManifest.xml....alternatively, set the theme of the Activity hosting the DialogFragment to your app's custom theme.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.helloworld">

    <application
        android:name=".App"
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">     <!-- set the app's theme to your custom theme -->

        .....

    </application>

</manifest>

define your custom theme in values/styles.xml, and override the default theme used for dialog fragments with one you define yourself.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">

        <!-- override the default theme for DialogFragments -->
        <item name="android:dialogTheme">@style/AppTheme.Dialog</item>

    </style>

    <!--
        configure your custom theme for DialogFragments...
        use a theme that has MinWidth, so that the dialog is not "too small"
    -->
    <style name="AppTheme.Dialog" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Dialog.MinWidth">

        <!-- override the default theme for DialogFragments spawned by this DialogFragment -->
        <item name="android:dialogTheme">@style/AppTheme.Dialog</item>

        <!--
            OPTIONAL: override the background for the dialog...i am using a dark theme,
            and for some reason, there is no themes for dialogs with dark backgrounds,
            so, i made my own.
        -->
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/dialog__window_background</item>

        <!--
            add the title to the dialog's theme. you can remove it later by using
            DialogFragment.setStyle()
        -->
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">false</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">?android:windowNoTitle</item>

    </style>

    .....

</resources>

if you use a dark theme, and overrode android:windowBackground like i did in AppTheme.Dialog, then add a drawable/dialog__window_background.xml file with the contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:insetLeft="16dp"
    android:insetTop="16dp"
    android:insetRight="16dp"
    android:insetBottom="16dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <corners android:radius="?dialogCornerRadius" />
        <solid android:color="?android:colorBackground" />
    </shape>
</inset>