Android Crash View not attached to window manager

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: View not attached to window manager

at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.findViewLocked(WindowManagerImpl.java:355)

at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.updateViewLayout(WindowManagerImpl.java:191)

at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.updateViewLayout(Window.java:428)

at android.app.Dialog.onWindowAttributesChanged(Dialog.java:596)

at android.view.Window.setDefaultWindowFormat(Window.java:1013)

This looks to be because dismissing say a dialog which is not attached to Window yet. 

Below was the solution 

if(dialog != null && dialog.isShowing())

{

dialog.dismiss();

}

references:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2224676/android-view-not-attached-to-window-manager