How to dismiss the dialog with click on outside of the dialog?

You can use dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true); which will close the dialog if you touch outside of the dialog.

Something like,

  Dialog dialog = new Dialog(context)  dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);

Or if your Dialog in non-model then,

1 - Set the flag-FLAG_NOT_TOUCH_MODAL for your dialog's window attribute

Window window = this.getWindow();window.setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCH_MODAL,WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCH_MODAL);

2 - Add another flag to windows properties,, FLAG_WATCH_OUTSIDE_TOUCH - this one is for dialog to receive touch event outside its visible region.

3 - Override onTouchEvent() of dialog and check for action type. if the action type is'MotionEvent.ACTION_OUTSIDE' means, user is interacting outside the dialog region. So in this case, you can dimiss your dialog or decide what you wanted to perform.view plainprint?

public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event)  {         if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_OUTSIDE){          System.out.println("TOuch outside the dialog ******************** ");                 this.dismiss();         }         return false;  }  

For more info look at How to dismiss a custom dialog based on touch points? andHow to dismiss your non-modal dialog, when touched outside dialog region

Simply use

dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);

You can use this implementation of onTouchEvent. It prevent from reacting underneath activity to the touch event (as mentioned howettl).

@Overridepublic boolean onTouchEvent ( MotionEvent event ) {  // I only care if the event is an UP action  if ( event.getAction () == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP ) {    // create a rect for storing the window rect    Rect r = new Rect ( 0, 0, 0, 0 );    // retrieve the windows rect    this.getWindow ().getDecorView ().getHitRect ( r );    // check if the event position is inside the window rect    boolean intersects = r.contains ( (int) event.getX (), (int) event.getY () );    // if the event is not inside then we can close the activity    if ( !intersects ) {      // close the activity      this.finish ();      // notify that we consumed this event      return true;    }  }  // let the system handle the event  return super.onTouchEvent ( event );}

Source: http://blog.twimager.com/2010/08/closing-activity-by-touching-outside.html