Async task to show an AlertDialog

Question

For the past few days, I haven\'t been able to solve an issue with my dialog box. I am running a thread to show the dialog box for 5000ms and removing it. and I am trying to

Answer 1

Why you don't use Android AsyncTask? For example:

public class MyPreloader extends AsyncTask<InputObject, Void, OutputObject>{
private Context context;
private ProgressDialog dialog;

public MyPreloader(Context context){
    this.context = context;
}

@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
    dialog = new ProgressDialog(context);
    dialog.setMessage("Please wait...");
    dialog.setIndeterminate(true);
    dialog.show();
    super.onPreExecute();
}   

@Override
protected ResponseBase doInBackground(InputObject... params) {
InputObject input = params[0]; 
//some code for background work
    }

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(OutputObject result) {
    if (dialog.isShowing()) {
        dialog.dismiss();
    }
    super.onPostExecute(result);
}

Answer 2

Easy: show dialog onPreExecute, register() in doInBackground and hide dialog in onPostExecute. Finally, do new RegisterTask().execute() in your onclick.

 private class RegisterTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Boolean> {
  private final ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(YourClass.this);

  protected void onPreExecute() {
     this.dialog.setMessage("Signing in...");
     this.dialog.show();
  }

  protected Boolean doInBackground(final Void unused) {
     return Main.this.register(); //don't interact with the ui!
  }

  protected void onPostExecute(final Boolean result) {
     if (this.dialog.isShowing()) {
        this.dialog.dismiss();
     }
     if (result.booleanValue()) {
     //also show register success dialog
     }
  }
}