02 Specifying a title, icon and message

In order to create a MaterialDialog, an instance of the class MaterialDialog.Builder has to be created at first. The builder therefore provides the constructor Builder(Context), which expects an instance of the class Context as a parameter.

To specify the title of the dialog, which should be created by the builder, the following two methods can be used. One of them allows to pass the title as an instance of the type CharSequence, the other one expects the resource id of a string resource as a parameter.

setTitle(CharSequence):Builder
setTitle(int):Builder

Specifying the message of a dialog is very similar to specifying the dialog's title. The following methods, which either allow to pass an instance of the type CharSequence or the resource id of a string resource, can be used.

setMessage(CharSequence):Builder
setMessage(int):Builder

To show an icon to the left of the dialog's title, the following three methods can be used. The icon is also shown if no title is specified.

setIcon(Bitmap):Builder
setIcon(int):Builder
setIconAttribute(int):Builder

The setIcon-methods shown above allow to specify the icon by either passing an instance of the class Bitmap or the resource id of a drawable resource as a parameter. The setIconAttribute-method allows to pass the an attribute of the theme, which is applied on the builder to specify the icon. An example of such an attribute is android.R.attr.alertDialogIcon.