Question: So I have a button that displays an alert dialog when its clicked. 
I create the view for the alert dialog in the onCreate method of my activity.
The code for that is right here:

```
    LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(this);
    view = factory.inflate(R.layout.grade_result, null);

```

When I push the button for the first time, the dialog displays the way I want it, but when I push it a second time it throws this exception.

11-28 00:35:58.066: E/AndroidRuntime(30348): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first.

My code for the method that displays the AlertDialog when the button is pushed is right here:

```
public void details(View v){
    final AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
    alert.setView(view);
    alert.setMessage("Details About Your Grades")
    .setCancelable(false)
    .setPositiveButton("Continue", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id){
            dialog.cancel();

        }
    });
    alert.show();

```

Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you!

Answer: 
It says that your "view" was connected to parent. It's happend when you called .setView(view). If i'm right - alertDialog class gives parent for your view. It is basics for android. ViewGroup may have a lot of child View's. I had similar problem.
So, you can try this insinde onClick:

```
ViewGroup vGroup = view.getParent();
vGroup.removeView(view);
// And right after that - close dialog
dialog.dismiss();

```

It helped me, I hope it'll help you!
Use alert.create(); then alertd.dismiss(); to destroy dialog

```
 final AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        final AlertDialog alertd = alert.create();

        alert.setTitle("Title");
        alert.setMessage("Messaage");

        alert.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
          public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            // Canceled.
              dialog.cancel();
              alertd.dismiss();
          }
        });

```