How to center progress indicator in ProgressDialog easily (when no title/text passed along)

Question

When calling progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(this, null, null, true); usually the developers wants to only show the progress indication image, and usually

Answer 1

You can always add one ProgressBar in all your activities where you might want to show centered ProgressDialog. Use following in acitivity.xml As:

In your Acitivity.java, use

ProgressBar bar = new Progress();
bar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar);

Now when you want to show the ProgressBar, just set its visibility to visible, and to cancel, set visibility to gone.

bar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
bar.setVisibility(View.GONE);