Question

I need to show a second activity after the progress bar is filled. I tried the code below but it doesn’t show the progress bar and just shows my second activity.

This is the code:

   public class MiSuper2 extends Activity {
        String strListas[] = null;
        private ProgressBar mProgress;
        private int mProgressStatus = 0;
        private Handler mHandler = new Handler();
        private StoreData stdArticulos = null;
        public Cursor cursor = null;
        private long fileSize = 0;

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

        fileSize = 0;
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        stdArticulos = new StoreData(this);
        cursor = stdArticulos.leerArticulos();

        mProgress = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressbar_activity);

        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                while (mProgressStatus < 100) {
                    mProgressStatus = doWork();

                    mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                        public void run() {
                            mProgress.setProgress(mProgressStatus);
                        }
                    });
                }
            }
        }).start();

        if(cursor.moveToFirst()) {
            do{
                strListas[cursor.getPosition()] = cursor.getString(cursor.getPosition());
            }while(cursor.moveToNext());
        }       

        Intent intent = new Intent(MiSuper2.this, PntArticulo.class);
        startActivity(intent);

    }

    public int doWork() {       
        while (fileSize <= 1000000) {
            fileSize++;
            return (int) fileSize;
        }
        return 100;
    }
}

This is the main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imvLogo"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/presentacion" 
        android:contentDescription="@string/logo"/>

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressbar_activity"
        style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
        android:layout_width="200dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginTop="100dp"/>

</LinearLayout>

Please help

Answer 1

It looks like you are using the doWork() function to take up time so that you’re progress bar does something. Even though you wrote a big loop, it still executes very quickly so you don’t see your progress bar move. Rather, you want to simulate your Thread doing something computationally intensive by using Thread.sleep() which takes an argument that is the time to sleep in milliseconds.

Try changing your code to this:

new Thread(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {

        while (mProgressStatus < 100) {
            try {
                mProgressStatus += doWork();
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    mProgress.setProgress(mProgressStatus);
                }
            });
        }

        runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
                public void run() {
                    startActivity(new Intent(MiSuper2.this, Second.class));
                }
            });
        }
}).start();

And…

public int doWork() throws InterruptedException {
    Thread.sleep(1000);
    return 1;
}

This will increment your progress bar by 1% every second. And finally, the documentation on Thread.sleep(): https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Thread.html#sleep(long)

EDIT: Ramz beat me to this answer, but doesn’t provide an explanation of why it’s the answer. Hopefully my explanation helps.

EDIT2: I think you edited your questions since I started looking at it a second time. You had some errors in your XML before, but now it is gone. Regardless, your problem is now that you need the call to startActivity() inside your worker thread. Otherwise, the UI thread does not wait for the doWork() function to return and immediately starts the other Activity when your app starts. Sorry, I should have mentioned this before. The code I posted above is updated with this change.