How to disable user interaction while ProgressBar is visible in android?

Question

I am using a custom ProgressBar. Now while a task is going on, I am showing the progress bar, but user can still interact with the views and controls. How do I disable the

Answer 1

Make a dialog with transparent background. The issue with getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE); is that when app will go in background and come back user will be able to interact with UI components, a lot more handling. So for blocking UI make a transparent dialog and if you want to set time for hide/show. Do this in a runnable thread. So the solution will be

public class TransparentDialogHelper {

    private Dialog overlayDialog;

    @Inject
    public TransparentDialogHelper() {

    }

    public void showDialog(Context context) {
        if (AcmaUtility.isContextFinishing(context)) {
            return;
        }
        if (overlayDialog == null) {
            overlayDialog = new Dialog(context, android.R.style.Theme_Panel);
            overlayDialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_UNCHANGED);
        }
        overlayDialog.show();
    }

    public void hideDialog() {
        if (overlayDialog == null || AcmaUtility.isContextFinishing(overlayDialog.getContext())) {
            return;
        }
        overlayDialog.cancel();
    }
}

-------- Timer

Handler handler = new Handler();
handler.postDelayed( () -> {
    view.hideProgress();
}, 2000);