Show Progress bar while downloading

Question

I want to show a progress bar showing percentage completed while my app is downloading some big files over the internet. something like this :

Answer 1

You should be using Progress bar. I assume for downloading file you are using Asynctask, if you are not then i recommend you to do that. Async task has has two more cool methods apart from the

doInBackground()

They are

preExecute and postExecute

You can override these method, now create a simple progress bar and start it in preExecute and end it in postExecute method. Here is the working LINK