[android] Show ProgressDialog Android

I have an EditText which takes a String from the user and a searchButton. When the searchButton is clicked, it will search through the XML file and display it in the ListView.

I am able to take input from the user, search through the XML file and display the usersearched value in the ListView also.

What I want is to display a ProgressDialog after the searchButton is clicked like "PLEASE WAIT...RETRIEVING DATA..." or something like that and dismiss it when the data is shown.

public class Tab1Activity extends ListActivity {
private Button okButton;
private Button searchButton;
Toast toast;
String xml;

private TextView searchText;
private String searchTextString;
HashMap<String, String> o;
ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> mylist = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.tab1);

    searchButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.search_button);
    searchButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            System.out.print("hello");

            searchText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.search_text);
            searchTextString = searchText.getText().toString();
            readXml(searchTextString);

        }
    });

}

private void readXml(String searchTextString1) {
    ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> mylist = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();

    String xml = XMLfunctions.getXML();
            //Here XMLfunctions is class name which parse xml
    Document doc = XMLfunctions.XMLfromString(xml);

    int numResults = XMLfunctions.numResults(doc);

    if ((numResults <= 0)) {
        Toast.makeText(Tab1Activity.this, "Testing xmlparser",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        finish();
    }

    NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("result");

    for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
        HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();

        Element e = (Element) nodes.item(i);
        String nameMapString = XMLfunctions.getValue(e, "name");



         if ( nameMapString.toLowerCase().indexOf(searchTextString1.toLowerCase()) != -1 )   // != -1 means string is present in the search string
            {
                map.put("id", XMLfunctions.getValue(e, "id"));
                map.put("name",  XMLfunctions.getValue(e, "name"));
                map.put("Score",  XMLfunctions.getValue(e, "score"));
                mylist.add(map);
            }
    }

    ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(this, mylist,
            R.layout.parsexml, new String[] { "name", "Score" }, new int[] {
                    R.id.item_title, R.id.item_subtitle });

    setListAdapter(adapter);

    final ListView lv = getListView();
    lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);
    lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                int position, long id) {
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            HashMap<String, String> o = (HashMap<String, String>) lv
                    .getItemAtPosition(position);


                Toast.makeText(Tab1Activity.this,
                         "Name "+o.get("name")+"  Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
                        .show();                

        }
    });
}

While creating the object for the progressbar check the following.

This fails:

dialog = new ProgressDialog(getApplicationContext());

While adding the activities context works..

dialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);

I am using the following code in one of my current projects where i download data from the internet. It is all inside my activity class.

// ---------------------------- START DownloadFileAsync // -----------------------//
class DownloadFileAsync extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();
        // DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS is defined as 0 at start of class
        showDialog(DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS);
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
        try {
            String xmlUrl = urls[0];

            URL u = new URL(xmlUrl);
            HttpURLConnection c = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection();
            c.setRequestMethod("GET");
            c.setDoOutput(true);
            c.connect();

            int lengthOfFile = c.getContentLength();

            InputStream in = c.getInputStream();

            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int len1 = 0;
            long total = 0;

            while ((len1 = in.read(buffer)) > 0) {
                total += len1; // total = total + len1
                publishProgress("" + (int) ((total * 100) / lengthOfFile));
                xmlContent += buffer;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.d("Downloader", e.getMessage());
        }
        return null;
    }

    protected void onProgressUpdate(String... progress) {
        Log.d("ANDRO_ASYNC", progress[0]);
        mProgressDialog.setProgress(Integer.parseInt(progress[0]));
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String unused) {
        dismissDialog(DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS);
    }

}

@Override
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
    switch (id) {
    case DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS:
        mProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
        mProgressDialog.setMessage("Retrieving latest announcements...");
        mProgressDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
        mProgressDialog.setMax(100);
        mProgressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL);
        mProgressDialog.setCancelable(true);
        mProgressDialog.show();
        return mProgressDialog;
    default:
        return null;
    }

}

You should not execute resource intensive tasks in the main thread. It will make the UI unresponsive and you will get an ANR. It seems like you will be doing resource intensive stuff and want the user to see the ProgressDialog. You can take a look at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html to do resource intensive tasks. It also shows you how to use a ProgressDialog.

I am using the following code in one of my current projects where i download data from the internet. It is all inside my activity class.

private class GetData extends AsyncTask<String, Void, JSONObject> {

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();

            progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(Calendar.this,
                    "", "");

        }

        @Override
        protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... params) {

            String response;

            try {

                HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

                HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);

                HttpResponse responce = httpclient.execute(httppost);

                HttpEntity httpEntity = responce.getEntity();

                response = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);

                Log.d("response is", response);

                return new JSONObject(response);

            } catch (Exception ex) {

                ex.printStackTrace();

            }

            return null;
        }

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

            progressDialog.dismiss();

            if(result != null)
            {
                try
                {
                    JSONObject jobj = result.getJSONObject("result");

                    String status = jobj.getString("status");

                    if(status.equals("true"))
                    {
                        JSONArray array = jobj.getJSONArray("data");

                        for(int x = 0; x < array.length(); x++)
                        {
                            HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();

                            map.put("name", array.getJSONObject(x).getString("name"));

                            map.put("date", array.getJSONObject(x).getString("date"));

                            map.put("description", array.getJSONObject(x).getString("description"));

                            list.add(map);
                        }

                        CalendarAdapter adapter = new CalendarAdapter(Calendar.this, list);

                        list_of_calendar.setAdapter(adapter);
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception e) 
                {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
            else
            {
                Toast.makeText(Calendar.this, "Network Problem", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }
        }

    }

and execute it in OnCreate Method like new GetData().execute();

where Calendar is my calendarActivity and i have also created a CalendarAdapter to set these values to a list view.