Android: ProgressDialog doesn’t show

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you have to call pd.show before the long calculation starts and then the calculation has to run in a separate thread. A soon as this thread is finished, you have to call pd.dismiss() to close the prgoress dialog.

here you can see an example:

the progressdialog is created and displayed and a thread is called to run a heavy calculation:

@Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
       pd = ProgressDialog.show(lexs, "Search", "Searching...", true, false);
       Search search = new Search(   ...   );
       SearchThread searchThread = new SearchThread(search);
       searchThread.start();
    }

and here the thread:

private class SearchThread extends Thread {

        private Search search;

        public SearchThread(Search search) {
            this.search = search;
        }

        @Override
        public void run() {         
            search.search();
            handler.sendEmptyMessage(0);
        }

        private Handler handler = new Handler() {

            @Override
            public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
                displaySearchResults(search);
                pd.dismiss();
            }
        };
    }

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