Android - Loading, please wait

Question

Is there a standard \"Loading, please wait\" dialog I can use in Android development, when I invoke some AsyncTask (downloading some data from remote service for example)?

Answer 1

If you implement runnable as well as extending Activity then you could handle the code like this...

private ProgressDialog pDialog;

public void downloadData() {
    pDialog = ProgressDialog.show(this, "Downloading Data..", "Please wait", true,false);
    Thread thread = new Thread(this);
    thread.start();
}

public void run() {
// add downloading code here
    handler.sendEmptyMessage(0);
 }

private Handler handler = new Handler() {
    @Override
    public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
        pDialog().dismiss();
        // handle the result here
    }
};

It's worth mentioning that you can set the content view of the progress dialog so you can display a custom message / image:)

pDialog.setContentView(R.layout.X);