Android Prompting an AlertDialog onBackPressed

android, android-alertdialog

Solution

Try to not call super.OnBackPressed(), this code shoul help:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
    builder.setMessage("Are you sure you want to exit?")
           .setCancelable(false)
           .setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
               public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                    MyActivity.this.finish();
               }
           })
           .setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
               public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                    dialog.cancel();
               }
           });
    AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
    alert.show();

}

Problem

I am trying to finish up my main menu in my application. I thought it would be a simple nice touch to add an AlertDialog in the OnBackPressed method. However for some reason I am getting all kinds of errors. I created the AlertDialog in the OnBackPressed and show it but the app just closes when I press the back button and I get errors saying that the window is leaking. Any idea how to fix this? I searched for about 30 minutes and couldn't find anyone else with this problem.

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