I have a DialogFragment to show a View like a Popup screen. The Window appears always in the middle of the screen. Is there a way to set the position of the DialogFragment window? I have looked in to the source code but couldn't find anything yet.


Try something like this:

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    getDialog().getWindow().setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL | Gravity.TOP);
    WindowManager.LayoutParams p = getDialog().getWindow().getAttributes();
    p.width = ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT;
    p.softInputMode = WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE;
    p.x = 200;
    ...
    getDialog().getWindow().setAttributes(p);
    ...

or other methods for getDialog().getWindow().

be sure to set the position after calling set-content.


Right, I banged head against wall for an hour or two with this, before finally getting DialogFragment positioned like I wanted.

I'm building on Steelight's answer here. This is the simplest, most reliable approach I found.

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle b) {
    Window window = getDialog().getWindow();

    // set "origin" to top left corner, so to speak
    window.setGravity(Gravity.TOP|Gravity.LEFT);

    // after that, setting values for x and y works "naturally"
    WindowManager.LayoutParams params = window.getAttributes();
    params.x = 300;
    params.y = 100;
    window.setAttributes(params);

    Log.d(TAG, String.format("Positioning DialogFragment to: x %d; y %d", params.x, params.y));
} 

Note that params.width and params.softInputMode (used in Steelight's answer) are irrelevant for this.


Below is a more complete example. What I really needed was to align a "confirm box" DialogFragment next to a "source" or "parent" View, in my case an ImageButton.

I chose to use DialogFragment, instead of any custom Fragment, because it gives you "dialog" features for free (close dialog when user clicks outside of it, etc).

Example ConfirmBox
Example ConfirmBox above its "source" ImageButton (trashcan)

/**
 * A custom DialogFragment that is positioned above given "source" component.
 *
 * @author Jonik, https://stackoverflow.com/a/20419231/56285
 */
public class ConfirmBox extends DialogFragment {
    private View source;

    public ConfirmBox() {
    }

    public ConfirmBox(View source) {
        this.source = source;            
    }

    public static ConfirmBox newInstance(View source) {
        return new ConfirmBox(source);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setStyle(STYLE_NO_FRAME, R.style.Dialog);
    }


    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        super.onStart();

        // Less dimmed background; see https://stackoverflow.com/q/13822842/56285
        Window window = getDialog().getWindow();
        WindowManager.LayoutParams params = window.getAttributes();
        params.dimAmount = 0.2f; // dim only a little bit
        window.setAttributes(params);

        // Transparent background; see https://stackoverflow.com/q/15007272/56285
        // (Needed to make dialog's alpha shadow look good)
        window.setBackgroundDrawableResource(android.R.color.transparent);
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // Put your dialog layout in R.layout.view_confirm_box
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.view_confirm_box, container, false);

        // Initialise what you need; set e.g. button texts and listeners, etc.

        // ...

        setDialogPosition();

        return view;
    }

    /**
     * Try to position this dialog next to "source" view
     */
    private void setDialogPosition() {
        if (source == null) {
            return; // Leave the dialog in default position
        }

        // Find out location of source component on screen
        // see https://stackoverflow.com/a/6798093/56285
        int[] location = new int[2];
        source.getLocationOnScreen(location);
        int sourceX = location[0];
        int sourceY = location[1];

        Window window = getDialog().getWindow();

        // set "origin" to top left corner
        window.setGravity(Gravity.TOP|Gravity.LEFT);

        WindowManager.LayoutParams params = window.getAttributes();

        // Just an example; edit to suit your needs.
        params.x = sourceX - dpToPx(110); // about half of confirm button size left of source view
        params.y = sourceY - dpToPx(80); // above source view

        window.setAttributes(params);
    }

    public int dpToPx(float valueInDp) {
        DisplayMetrics metrics = getActivity().getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
        return (int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, valueInDp, metrics);
    }
}

It's quite easy to make the above more general-use by adding constructor parameters or setters as necessary. (My final ConfirmBox has a styled button (inside some borders etc) whose text and View.OnClickListener can be customised in code.)


I use AppCompatDialogFragment from android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDialogFragment and I want to align dialog fragment to bottom of the screen and also remove all borders, especially I needed to set content width to match parent.

So, I wanted from this (yellow background comes from rootLayout of dialog fragment):

src_img_1

Get this:

src_img_2

None of solutions above worked. So, I did this:

fun AppCompatDialogFragment.alignToBottom() {
    dialog.window.apply {
        setGravity(Gravity.BOTTOM or Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL)
        decorView.apply {

            // Get screen width
            val displayMetrics = DisplayMetrics().apply {
                windowManager.defaultDisplay.getMetrics(this)
            }

            setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE) // I don't know why it is required, without it background of rootView is ignored (is transparent even if set in xml/runtime)
            minimumWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels
            setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0)
            layoutParams = LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
            invalidate()
        }
    }
}