Prevent Android activity dialog from closing on outside touch

What you actually have is an Activity (even if it looks like a Dialog), therefore you should call setFinishOnTouchOutside(false) from your activity if you want to keep it open when the background activity is clicked.

EDIT: This only works with android API level 11 or greater

What worked for me was to create DialogFragment an set it to not be cancelable:

dialog.setCancelable(false);

To prevent dialog box from getting dismissed on back key pressed use this

dialog.setCancelable(false);

And to prevent dialog box from getting dismissed on outside touch use this

 dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);