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Dialogs and Toast

A dialog is a small window that is prompted to the user to make a decision or enter additional
information. We have 3 types of dialogs defined in Android system.

Alert Dialog

This is a type of dialog, where content is displayed with a dialog title and a button. The following
layout is for the example of displaying alert dialogs. We have three buttons.

The following code is very simple; we are getting the controls from the layout and subscribing to
the respective click events.

Single Button Alert Dialog

In the following example the basic single button dialog is displayed.