Async task to show an AlertDialog

Question

For the past few days, I haven\'t been able to solve an issue with my dialog box. I am running a thread to show the dialog box for 5000ms and removing it. and I am trying to

Answer 1

Why you don't use Android AsyncTask? For example:

public class MyPreloader extends AsyncTask{
private Context context;
private ProgressDialog dialog;

public MyPreloader(Context context){
    this.context = context;
}

@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
    dialog = new ProgressDialog(context);
    dialog.setMessage("Please wait...");
    dialog.setIndeterminate(true);
    dialog.show();
    super.onPreExecute();
}   

@Override
protected ResponseBase doInBackground(InputObject... params) {
InputObject input = params[0]; 
//some code for background work
    }

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(OutputObject result) {
    if (dialog.isShowing()) {
        dialog.dismiss();
    }
    super.onPostExecute(result);
}