Question

I have an activity with a listview populated from the web.
While data is loading I would like to display a progress dialog instead of the listview.

My layout:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+android:id/progress_large"
        style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center" />

    <ExpandableListView
        android:id="@+id/listview"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</RelativeLayout>

I do this so that the progress bar shows itself (and this works):

setProgressBarVisibility(true);

However, once the listview is populated (with an AsyncTask), I’d like the progress bar to disappear which is not the case, it stays above the listview.

Here is what I did in the AsyncTask:

 @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        setProgressBarVisibility(false);

        //... and some code to update UI
    }

Answer 1

Do this in your code,

@Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
         //progressBar.dismiss(); //this dismisses the progressbar
              progressBar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.GONE)

        //... and some code to update UI
    }