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Updating progress dialog in Activity from AsyncTask

I am developing my first Android App and I need a ProgressDialog to be showed while a background task, in this case just a http call on the server, happens.
I did a bit of studying on this and also have already checked other threads related to this subject.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html

Android show ProgressDialog until activity UI finished loading

Android SplashScreen

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/05/painless-threading.html

Among others.

Than I got to write a bit of code:

1) In My Activity I declare a variable to be of type ProgressDialog

public class LoginActivity extends Activity {

    public static final String TAG = "LoginActivity";

    protected ProgressDialog progressDialog; 
...

2) I have also written an inner class to extend AsyncTask as required, here in the doInBackGround is where I call a static method which actually do the POST http request to the server, in the server side I have blocked the server response 20s to validate the progress dialog.

class EfetuaLogin extends AsyncTask<Object, Void, String> {

        private final static String TAG = "LoginActivity.EfetuaLogin";

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute()
        {
            Log.d(TAG, "Executando onPreExecute de EfetuaLogin");
        }


        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(Object... parametros) {
            Log.d(TAG, "Executando doInBackground de EfetuaLogin");
            Object[] params = parametros;
            HttpClient httpClient = (HttpClient) params[0];
            List<NameValuePair> listaParametros = (List<NameValuePair>) params[1];
            String result = null;
            try{
            result = HttpProxy.httpPost(AnototudoMetadata.URL_AUTENTICACAO, httpClient, listaParametros);
            }catch (IOException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, "IOException, Sem conectividade com o servidor do Anototudo! " + e.getMessage());
                e.printStackTrace();
                return result;
            }
            return result;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result)
        {
            progressDialog.dismiss();
        }

    } 

3) When the button is pressed I than build the ProgressDialog anc call the AsyncTask I have created:

    OnClickListener loginListener = new OnClickListener() {
      public void onClick(View v) {


//next line should start progress dialog in main thread ?????
   progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(LoginActivity.this, "Login in", "Wait a moment please", true, false);

   //next couple of lines should do an ascyn call to server
   EfetuaLogin efetuaLogin = new EfetuaLogin();
   efetuaLogin.execute(params);
   try {
    //recover the server response and sets time out to be 25seconds
    sResposta = efetuaLogin.get(25, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Well, this is it, I believe this was suppose to show a progress dialog while the AsyncTask would query the server in background, but what I get is NO progress bar until server response arrives and than for a fraction of time(less than 1 second) the progress shows and the next Activity is called.

As I mentioned I have re-checked this code and simply can’t find where I got it wrong.
Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

Hi, as suggested by Charlie Sheen(???) in the first answer for this thread I have tryied changing a bit of my code and now it is like(Unfortunatelly it is not working as expected so far):

OnClickListener loginListener = new OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {
                //async call????????
        new EfetuaLogin().execute(params);
...

And than do all the work to deal with response in the AsyncTask:

class EfetuaLogin extends AsyncTask<Object, Void, String> {

        private final static String TAG = "LoginActivity.EfetuaLogin";

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute()
        {
            super.onPreExecute();
            Log.d(TAG, "Executando onPreExecute de EfetuaLogin");
            //inicia diálogo de progresso, mostranto processamento com servidor.
            progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(LoginActivity.this, "Autenticando", "Contactando o servidor, por favor, aguarde alguns instantes.", true, false);
        }


        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(Object... parametros) {
            Log.d(TAG, "Executando doInBackground de EfetuaLogin");
            Object[] params = parametros;
            HttpClient httpClient = (HttpClient) params[0];
            List<NameValuePair> listaParametros = (List<NameValuePair>) params[1];
            String result = null;
            try{
            result = HttpProxy.httpPost(AnototudoMetadata.URL_AUTENTICACAO, httpClient, listaParametros);
            }catch (IOException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, "IOException, Sem conectividade com o servidor do Anototudo! " + e.getMessage());
                e.printStackTrace();
                return result;
            }
            return result;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result)
        {
            super.onPostExecute(result);

            if (result == null || result.equals("")) {
                progressDialog.dismiss();
                Alerta
                        .popupAlertaComBotaoOK(
                                "Dados incorretos",
                                "Os dados informados não foram encontrados no Sistema! Informe novamente ou cadastre-se antes pela internet.",
                                LoginActivity.this);
                return;
            }

            Log.d(TAG, "Login passou persistindo info de login local no device");
            ContentValues contentValues = new ContentValues();
            contentValues.put(AnototudoMetadata.LOGIN_EMAIL, sLogin);
            contentValues.put(AnototudoMetadata.LOGIN_SENHA, sSenha);
            contentValues.put(AnototudoMetadata.LOGIN_SENHA_GERADA, result);
            LoginDB loginDB = new LoginDB();
            loginDB.addLogin(LoginActivity.this, contentValues);
            Log.d(TAG, "Persistiu info de login no device, redirecionando para menu principal do Anototudo");
            Log.d(TAG, "O retorno da chamada foi ==>> " + result);
            // tudo ok chama menu principal
            Log.d(TAG, "Device foi corretametne autenticado, chamando tela do menu principal do Anototudo.");

            String actionName = "br.com.anototudo.intent.action.MainMenuView";
            Intent intent = new Intent(actionName);
            LoginActivity.this.startActivity(intent);
            progressDialog.dismiss();
        }

    } 

Complete OnClickListener:

OnClickListener loginListener = new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Usuario logado, chamando menu principal");
        TextView tLogin = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.loginText);
        TextView tSenha = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.senhaText);
        String sLogin = tLogin.getText().toString();
        String sSenha = tSenha.getText().toString();

        if (sLogin.equals("") | sSenha.equals("")) {
            Alerta.popupAlertaComBotaoOK("Campos Obrigatórios",
                    "Os campos Login e Senha são obrigatórios para autenticação do Anototudo.", LoginActivity.this);
            return;
        } else {
            Pattern regEx = Pattern.compile(".+@.+\\.[a-z]+");
            Matcher matcher = regEx.matcher(sLogin);
            if (!matcher.matches()) {
                Alerta.popupAlertaComBotaoOK("Formato e-mail inválido", "O formato do campo e-mail está inválido",
                        LoginActivity.this);
                return;
            }
        }


        List<NameValuePair> listaParametros = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
        listaParametros.add(new BasicNameValuePair("login", sLogin));
        listaParametros.add(new BasicNameValuePair("senha", sSenha));

        Log.d(TAG, "valores recuperados dos campos de login e senha: " + sLogin + " | " + sSenha);

        // Reutiliza cliente HttpClient disponibilizado pela Aplicação.
        AnototudoApp atapp = (AnototudoApp) LoginActivity.this.getApplication();
        HttpClient httpClient = atapp.getHttpClient();

        //prepara lista de parametros para fazer chamada asíncrona no servidor para autenticar.
        Object[] params = new Object[2];
        params[0] = httpClient;
        params[1] = listaParametros;

        //faz chamada assincrona
        new EfetuaLogin().execute(params);
    }
};

Answer 1

Place your ProgressDialog in onPreExecute, sample code below:

private ProgressDialog pdia;

@Override
protected void onPreExecute(){ 
   super.onPreExecute();
        pdia = new ProgressDialog(yourContext);
        pdia.setMessage("Loading...");
        pdia.show();    
}

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result){
   super.onPostExecute(result);
        pdia.dismiss();
}

and in your onClickListener, just put this line inside:

new EfetuaLogin().execute(null, null , null);