ProgressDialog is deprecated.What is the alternate one to use?

Question

I have come across to see that ProgressDialog is now deprecated. What would be alternate one to use in place of that apart from ProgressBar. I am

Answer 1

It may help to other people.

Lots of popular apps have the different approach to show the progress of anything like network request, file loading etc. Loading spinner doesn't show the how much content has been loaded or remaining to load. There is a period of uncertainty which is bad in the perspective of UI/UX. Lot of popular apps(Facebook, Linkedin etc) has resolved this issue by showing the bare bones UI displays first. Then the loaded content is gradually populated on-screen.

I have used the shimmer for my apps to solve this issue.

There is a good article about this which will be beneficial for other people