How to implement file upload progress bar in android

What you’re going to want to do is create an AsyncTask that can handle this for you, overriding the onProgressUpdate method.

Here’s a stripped down version of a something I tested in another app using HttpURLConnection. There may be some small redundancies and I think HttpURLConnection may be generally frowned upon, but this should work. Just use this class in whatever Activity class you’re using (in this example, I refer to it as TheActivity) by calling new FileUploadTask().execute(). Of course you may need to tweak this to fit the needs of your app.

private class FileUploadTask extends AsyncTask<Object, Integer, Void> {

    private ProgressDialog dialog;

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        dialog = new ProgressDialog(TheActivity.this);
        dialog.setMessage("Uploading...");
        dialog.setIndeterminate(false);
        dialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL);
        dialog.setProgress(0);
        dialog.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Object... arg0) {
        try {
            File file = new File("file path");
            FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
            byte[] bytes = new byte[(int) file.length()];
            fileInputStream.read(bytes);
            fileInputStream.close();

            URL url = new URL("some path");
            HttpURLConnection connection = 
                    (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            OutputStream outputStream = connection.getOutputStream();

            int bufferLength = 1024;
            for (int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i += bufferLength) {
                int progress = (int)((i / (float) bytes.length) * 100);
                publishProgress(progress);
                if (bytes.length - i >= bufferLength) {
                    outputStream.write(bytes, i, bufferLength);
                } else {
                    outputStream.write(bytes, i, bytes.length - i);
                }
            }
            publishProgress(100);

            outputStream.close();
            outputStream.flush();

            InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
            // read the response
            inputStream.close();

        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... progress) {
        dialog.setProgress(progress[0]);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        try {
            dialog.dismiss();
        } catch(Exception e) {
        }

    }

}