[android] showDialog deprecated. What's the alternative?

Is there something else that should be called?

showDialog(TIME_DIALOG_ID);

It's in this tutorial but says deprecated in Eclipse.

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This code worked for me. Easy fix but probably not a preferred way.

public void onClick (View v) {
    createdDialog(0).show(); // Instead of showDialog(0);
}

protected Dialog createdDialog(int id) {
    // Your code
}

From Activity#showDialog(int):

This method is deprecated.
Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.


package com.keshav.datePicker_With_Hide_Future_Past_Date;

import android.app.DatePickerDialog;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.DatePicker;
import android.widget.EditText;

import java.util.Calendar;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    EditText ed_date;
    int year;
    int month;
    int day;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        ed_date=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.et_date);

        ed_date.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
        {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v)
            {
                Calendar mcurrentDate=Calendar.getInstance();
                year=mcurrentDate.get(Calendar.YEAR);
                month=mcurrentDate.get(Calendar.MONTH);
                day=mcurrentDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

                final DatePickerDialog   mDatePicker =new DatePickerDialog(MainActivity.this, new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener()
                {
                    @Override
                    public void onDateSet(DatePicker datepicker, int selectedyear, int selectedmonth, int selectedday)
                    {
                              ed_date.setText(new StringBuilder().append(year).append("-").append(month+1).append("-").append(day));
                            int month_k=selectedmonth+1;

                    }
                },year, month, day);
                mDatePicker.setTitle("Please select date");
                // TODO Hide Future Date Here
                mDatePicker.getDatePicker().setMaxDate(System.currentTimeMillis());

                // TODO Hide Past Date Here
                //  mDatePicker.getDatePicker().setMinDate(System.currentTimeMillis());
                mDatePicker.show();
            }
        });
    }
}


// Its Working 

To display dialog box, you can use the following code. This is to display a simple AlertDialog box with multiple check boxes:

AlertDialog.Builder alertDialog= new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this); .
            alertDialog.setTitle("this is a dialog box ");
            alertDialog.setPositiveButton("ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"ok ive wrote this 'ok' here" ,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                }
            });
            alertDialog.setNegativeButton("cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "cancel ' comment same as ok'", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();


                }
            });
            alertDialog.setMultiChoiceItems(items, checkedItems, new DialogInterface.OnMultiChoiceClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which, boolean isChecked) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), items[which] +(isChecked?"clicked'again i've wrrten this click'":"unchecked"),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                }
            });
            alertDialog.show();

Heading

Whereas if you are using the showDialog function to display different dialog box or anything as per the arguments passed, you can create a self function and can call it under the onClickListener() function. Something like:

 public CharSequence[] items={"google","Apple","Kaye"};
public boolean[] checkedItems=new boolean[items.length];
Button bt;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    bt=(Button) findViewById(R.id.bt);
    bt.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            display(0);             
        }       
    });
}

and add the code of dialog box given above in the function definition.