ProgressDialog created from onCreateDialog stops animating on second run

Question

I create a ProgressDialog in onCreateDialog() like so:

protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
  if (id == DIALOG_PROGRESS_ID)
           


        

Answer 1

Ha! Got it... was also struggling with this. But calling:

removeDialog(DIALOG_PROGRESS_ID)

immediately after

dismissDialog(...)

removes it from the (presumed) dialog cache for the Activity and forces a call to onCreateDialog. Create a new ProgressDialog in onCreateDialog and the spinner animates everytime (for me at least).