Android - show an indeterminate progressbar without the dialog

Question

I want to show my progressbar in the center of the screen when a processing happens on a button click. But I just want the progressbar without the dialog box..

Is th

Answer 1

The answer by @Jesse Finnerty solved my issue. what i did was:

private ProgressBar mprogressBar;

The inside oncreate() just like other buttons and textviews i did, mprogressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar);

Then at the point i want spinning wheel to appear i give command

mprogressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

at the point where i want it to disappear .

mprogressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

This is under switch actually. so that as the states in my program change, the progress bar appears and disappears