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pedant/sweet-alert-dialog

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TLDR

An Android library for displaying polished, animated popup dialogs, success confirmations, error notices, warnings, loading spinners, and custom image dialogs, added with a single Gradle dependency.

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  root((sweet-alert-dialog))
    Dialog Types
      Success
      Error
      Warning
      Loading spinner
    Setup
      Gradle dependency
      Maven dependency
    Customization
      Button labels
      Custom images
      Spinner color
    Audience
      Android developers
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Show a success animation dialog after a user submits a form in an Android app.

USE CASE 2

Display a loading spinner while fetching data from a remote server.

USE CASE 3

Ask users to confirm a destructive action with a warning dialog that transforms into a success message on confirmation.

USE CASE 4

Show a styled error dialog when a network call fails.

Tech stack

JavaAndroidGradleMaven

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

Sweet Alert Dialog is an Android library that gives developers a set of stylized popup dialogs for their apps. It was inspired by a JavaScript library of the same name and brings that same visual style to native Android applications. The dialogs it produces look polished and animated compared to the plain system dialogs that Android provides by default. The library covers the kinds of dialog situations that come up most often in apps. You can show a simple informational message, a success confirmation, an error notice, a warning that asks the user to confirm a destructive action, a loading spinner while something is happening in the background, or a dialog with a custom image of your choosing. Each type comes with its own visual style so users can quickly understand whether they are looking at good news, bad news, or a question. Setting it up involves adding a single dependency to your Android project through either Maven or Gradle, which are standard build tools for Android development. Once added, you create a dialog by chaining together configuration calls in code: you set the title, the message body, the button labels, and what should happen when each button is tapped. The dialog can also change its type after the user interacts with it, so a warning can transform into a success message once the user confirms an action, all within the same popup. The progress spinner variant integrates with a separate open-source component and lets you adjust visual details like the color, width, and spin speed of the circle animation while something is loading. The project is released under the MIT license, which means you can use it in commercial or personal projects without restriction. The repository does not carry a deprecation notice, though activity appears to have tapered off. It may still work for projects targeting older Android versions, but developers starting new projects should check whether the library is compatible with current Android tooling before adopting it.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Using sweet-alert-dialog for Android, write Java code to show a warning dialog asking the user to confirm deleting an item, then transform it into a success dialog on confirmation.
Prompt 2
How do I add sweet-alert-dialog to my Android Gradle project and display a loading spinner while an AsyncTask runs in the background?
Prompt 3
Show me how to customize the loading spinner in sweet-alert-dialog to use a specific hex color and a faster spin speed.
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