Android Alert dialog from inside an intent service

Need Activity for display AlertDialog, because we can't display Dialog from any Service

Solution.

Create Activity as Dialog Theme and start that Activity from Service.

Just need to register you Activity in menifest.xml like as below

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"

or

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"

MyDialog.java

public class MyDialog extends Activity {    @Override    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        final AlertDialog alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create();        alertDialog.setTitle("your title");        alertDialog.setMessage("your message");        alertDialog.setIcon(R.drawable.icon);        alertDialog.show();    }}

Only if you set your alertDialog type to TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT it will be displayed from an intent service.

 AlertDialog alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create();

add these after your code:

alertDialog.getWindow().setType(WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT);alertDialog.show();

But, it have a cost:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW" />

Please visit

https://github.com/selmantayyar/Custom-SMS-Popup

it will surly help you!!

or what you can do is register anActivity in menifest.xml as follows

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"

or

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"

and work around it