Dialogs in Android 1 are used to shows alerts for making decisions or to edit a single value 2.
But there are some differences between an AlertDialog and a BasicDialog.
In an AlertDialog you always want to show a message and at least one Button for user interaction.
In a BasicDialog you have a custom view to a TextView or something more complex.
BasicDialog in Android Lollipop
Lint result: InflateParams: Layout Inflation without a Parent
AlertDialog in Android Lollipop
The first working example was quickly done