Question

in my app when a particular activity is been called i am showing a image from an url. As the image from url will gets loaded slowly, i am trying to show a progress dialog here,

following is my code to show progress dialog beofr image appears

class ShowImageTagList extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> 
{
     ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(UploadPhoto.this);
     protected void onPreExecute() 
     {
          Log.e("preexcute ","called");
          this.dialog.setMessage(" Loading ...");
          this.dialog.setCancelable(false);
          this.dialog.show();
     }

     protected Void doInBackground(Void... args) 
     {
        try
        {   
            JSONObject json = new JSONObject(Appconstants.photo_details);
            JSONArray photoperson = json.getJSONArray("photopersons");
            Log.e("photoperson ","value @ photoperson "+photoperson);
            for(int j=0; j < photoperson.length(); j++)
            {
               id.add(photoperson.getJSONObject(j).getString("pid").toString());
               names.add(photoperson.getJSONObject(j).getString("name").toString());
            }
         }
         catch(Exception e)
         {
             Log.e("Eception caught", ""+e);
         }
         return null ;      
      }

      protected void onPostExecute(Void unused) 
      {
           Log.e("post execute ","called");
           Bitmap bm = getBitmapFromURL(Appconstants.image_url.get(Appconstants.img_i));
           img_to_upload.setImageBitmap(bm);
           list_tag.setAdapter(new ListviewAdapter(UploadPhoto.this, names, id));
           dialog.dismiss();
      }
}

public static Bitmap getBitmapFromURL(String src) 
{
    try 
    {
       URL url = new URL(src);
       HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
       connection.setDoInput(true);
       connection.connect();
       InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
       Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
       return myBitmap;
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
        Log.e("Exception",e.getMessage());
        return null;
    }

}

The progress dialog does not appear immediately, it takes to appear for micro second before the image gets appeared, but the logs in pre-execute and do in background gets printed immediately. when the asyn task been called,

how to make the progress to run from the begin…..

Answer 1

move
Bitmap bm = getBitmapFromURL(Appconstants.image_url.get(Appconstants.img_i));
in

doInBackground

As it is the main long process. Which you are calling in onPostExecute.

onPostExecute run on Main UI thread.