Run progress bar while switching Activity

Question

im stuck in a situation where i am switching from activity 1 to activity 2. i am using Thread.sleep(5000) to start another activity after 5 seconds But the progress bar whic

Answer 1

You better use an AsyncTask for this purpose.Using threads like that in your activity is not proper and can lead to some fails.Check this docs about AsyncTask.

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/painless-threading.html