Question

Progress Dialog not showing up was solved by removing the blocking call.

My purpose is to download large amount of data from internet and keep the end user informed about download status, however I have to wait to the data to complete downloading for proceeding to the next step, and because of that I have to block the code from executing.

Blocking causes the progress dialog not to show up or freeze. I need tip for implementing those tasks the best way. Because my tasks are simple it seems for me to be overkill to implement task complete listener and I was wondering if there was any other way to solve my problem?

Answer 1

Try this:::

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        dialog = new ProgressDialog(YourActivity.this);
        dialog.setMessage("Progress start");
        dialog.show();
        Log.d(TAG, "Showing dialog");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(T result) {
        dialog.dismiss();
        Log.d(TAG, "Dismissing dialog");
    }