Android hourglass

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How can I programmatically display an hourglass in an Android application?

score 45 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 08 '17 at 14:20

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You can use a ProgressDialog:

ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
dialog.setMessage("Thinking...");
dialog.setIndeterminate(true);
dialog.setCancelable(false);
dialog.show();

The above code will show the following dialog on top of your Activity:

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Alternatively (or additionally) you can display a Progress indicator in the title bar of your Activity.

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You need to request this as a feature near the top of the onCreate() method of your Activity using the following code:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);

Then turn it on like this:

setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);

and turn it off like this:

setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);

edited Feb 08 '17 at 14:20

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answered Jan 26 '10 at 15:11

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The problem is that after displaying the dialog box I ran a relatively long treatment which prevents the display of the dialog box that appears at the end of treatment when I no longer need ! – Arutha Jan 26 '10 at 16:00
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Have a look at `AsyncTask`. You display and hide the `ProgressDialog` in `onPreExecute()` and `onPostExecute` and do your work in `doInBackground`. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/05/painless-threading.html – David Webb Jan 26 '10 at 16:26
Might also be worth reading the Android Developer Guide "Designing For Responsiveness" http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/responsiveness.html – Jeremy Logan Jan 26 '10 at 17:02
The constructor ProgressDialog() is undefined . How to solve or what to replaced the "this" ? – neobie Oct 13 '11 at 08:22
@neobie Set "this" to the context that you want to display the Progress Dialog to. – Ushal Naidoo Mar 11 '13 at 21:31
every Android post older than 2 years should be wiped – Atys Nov 15 '21 at 19:52

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '14 at 16:44

Here is a simple example of doing it using AsyncTask:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        ...

        new MyLoadTask(this).execute(); //If you have parameters you can pass them inside execute method

    }

    private class MyLoadTask extends AsyncTask <Object,Void,String>{        

        private ProgressDialog dialog;

        public MyLoadTask(MyActivity act) {
            dialog = new ProgressDialog(act);
        }       

        protected void onPreExecute() {
            dialog.setMessage("Loading...");
            dialog.show();
        }       

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(Object... params) {         
            //Perform your task here.... 
            //Return value ... you can return any Object, I used String in this case

            try {
                Thread.sleep(6000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return(new String("test"));
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String str) {          
            //Update your UI here.... Get value from doInBackground ....
            if (dialog.isShowing()) {
                dialog.dismiss();
            }           
        }
    }

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