Question

I have the following three classes:

When I try to show a progressDialog when the WorkingThread is running, the ProgressDialog only shows up after the WorkingThread is done. What am I doing wrong?

I am not interested in using an AsyncTask!

-StartActivity:

public class StartActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener
{
    public ProgressDialog pgd;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        imgv = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
        tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview);

        Button btn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
        btn.setOnClickListener(this);
    }

    public void onClick(View v) 
    {
        pgd = ProgressDialog.show(StartActivity.this, "", "Loading picture"); // Start ProgressDialog before starting activity

        Intent ActivityIntent = new Intent(this, FirstActivity.class);
        startActivityForResult(ActivityIntent, 0);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) 
    {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

        if (requestCode == 0 && resultCode == RESULT_OK)
        {
            pgd.dismiss(); //Stop ProgressDialog when FirstActivity is "done"
        }
    }
}

–

-FirstActivity:

public class FirstActivity extends Activity
{
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        WorkingThread wt = new WorkingThread();
        wt.start();

        try 
        {
            wt.join();
            Intent ActivityIntent = getIntent();
            setResult(RESULT_OK, ActivityIntent);
            finish();
        } 
        catch (Exception e) 
        {
        }
    }
}

-WorkingThread:

public class WorkingThread extends Thread 
{

    @Override
    public void run() 
    {
        super.run();

        try
        {
            Thread.sleep(5000);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

The problem is ProgressDialog always need current Activity context for display.But in your case ProgressDialog is little unfortunate

The reason is as soon as you fire ProgressDialog the next couple of lines take out Context from Current activity and starts Next Activity i.e FirstActivity.So your progressDialog gets no chance to present itself on the Screen.