how to show progress bar(circle) in an activity having a listview before loading the listview with data

Question

I have a ListView in my second activity.OnItemClick of it I called a webservice and trying to fetch data. And after that I am moving to third activ

Answer 1

There are several methods of showing a progress bar (circle) while loading an activity. In your case, one with a ListView in it.

IN ACTIONBAR

If you are using an ActionBar, you can call the ProgressBar like this (this could go in your onCreate()

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);  
setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);

And after you are done displaying the list, to hide it.

setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);

IN THE LAYOUT (The XML)

And in your activity (Java) I use an AsyncTask to fetch data for my lists. SO, in the AsyncTask's onPreExecute() I use something like this:

// CAST THE LINEARLAYOUT HOLDING THE MAIN PROGRESS (SPINNER)
LinearLayout linlaHeaderProgress = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.linlaHeaderProgress);

@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {    
    // SHOW THE SPINNER WHILE LOADING FEEDS
    linlaHeaderProgress.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}

and in the onPostExecute(), after setting the adapter to the ListView:

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {     
    // SET THE ADAPTER TO THE LISTVIEW
    lv.setAdapter(adapter);

    // CHANGE THE LOADINGMORE STATUS TO PERMIT FETCHING MORE DATA
    loadingMore = false;

    // HIDE THE SPINNER AFTER LOADING FEEDS
    linlaHeaderProgress.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}

EDIT: This is how it looks in my app while loading one of several ListViews