Question

I have declared a simple ProgressDialog in my android application but it isn’t showing up. Here is my instantiation:

ProgressDialog pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MyActivity.this, ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
pDialog.setMessage("Logging in...");
pDialog.show();

I am pretty new to Android development but not Java; does anybody see anything that I might be doing wrong?

UPDATE
It’s weird, in the block that is supposed to dismiss the dialog, I have a content view switch, and if I comment out the dismissal the dialog will actually show AFTER the content switch. Here is said block:

if(writeSuccess){
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Login Success!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    pDialog.dismiss();
    setContentView(R.layout.auth);
}

Answer 1

It should be like this.

ProgressDialog pDialog = ProgressDialog.show(MyActivity.this, "MY Dialog", "Please wait...");

By this single line also you will have a ProgressDialog.