How to add ProgressDialog

Question

I am downloading a file from dropbox which is taking a few seconds. I want to add a ProgressDialog for the download but I don\'t know how to do that.

Answer 1

This article can be useful for you:

http://huuah.com/android-progress-bar-and-thread-updating/

Where inside the run() method of your thread you can invoke a function like this:

 public boolean download(String url, String path, String fileName, Handler progressHandler) {
    try {
        URL sourceUrl = new URL(formatUrl(url));
        if (fileName == null || fileName.length() <= 0) {
            fileName = sourceUrl.getFile();
        }
        if (fileName == null || fileName.length() <= 0) {
            throw new Exception("EMPTY_FILENAME_NOT_ALLOWED");
        }
        File targetPath = new File(path);
        targetPath.mkdirs();
        if (!targetPath.exists()) {
            throw new Exception("MISSING_TARGET_PATH");
        }
        File file = new File(targetPath, fileName);
        URLConnection ucon = sourceUrl.openConnection();
        InputStream is = ucon.getInputStream();
        BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
        ByteArrayBuffer baf = new ByteArrayBuffer(100);
        int current = 0;
        int totalSize = ucon.getContentLength();
        while ((current = bis.read()) != -1) {
            baf.append((byte) current);
            // BEGIN - Handler feedback
            if (progressHandler != null && (baf.length() % 100) == 0) {
                Message msg = progressHandler.obtainMessage();
                Bundle b = new Bundle();
                if (totalSize > 0) {
                    b.putInt("total", totalSize);
                    b.putInt("step", baf.length());
                    b.putBoolean("working", true);
                }
                msg.setData(b);
                progressHandler.handleMessage(msg);
            }
            // END
        }
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
        fos.write(baf.toByteArray());
        fos.close();
        // BEGIN - Handler feedback
        if (progressHandler != null) {
            Message msg = progressHandler.obtainMessage();
            Bundle b = new Bundle();
            if (totalSize > 0) {
                b.putInt("total", 0);
                b.putInt("step", 0);
                b.putBoolean("working", false);
            }
            msg.setData(b);
            progressHandler.handleMessage(msg);
        }
        // END
        return file.exists();
    }

Doing this way, you have a more accurate feedback about real progress of you download (byte per byte).