Does anyone have a recommendation on how to visually show progress of uploading a

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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T06:59:54+00:00 2026-05-13T06:59:54+00:00

Does anyone have a recommendation on how to visually show progress of uploading a

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Does anyone have a recommendation on how to visually show progress of uploading a large file to a web server? My app needs to upload one photo at a time, as directed by the user. Images are about 200kb.

I don’t want to put up a progress dialog and block the user from further interaction while the upload is in progress. Looks like I can:

Have a service upload the photo, and post status updates to the notification bar.
Upload through service (or bg thread), but post status updates to some in-app notification indicator.

I’m wondering if #1 is more standard, I like the idea of putting off updates to the notifcation bar so it’s separated from my main app. I don’t really want to build some global upload widget that has to be displayed on each activity my user navigates to.

Thanks