Unable To Interact With Android Custom Dialog

Ok, bear with me because I haven't worked with custom Dialogs (or Android programming at all really) that much, and I'm sure I've made a stupid beginner mistake. So I have a simple

Solution 1:

I would suggest using an activity with a dialog theme if you are wanting something like a dialog. This will allow it to "pop-up" like a dialog but give you more flexibility and easier to manipulate, IMHO. Create a separate activity to open up and add this to your manifest for the activity

<activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">

Themes

There may be a better way to do this but I think this might work well for you.