how to show the progress bar before playing the video

Question

i want to show the progress dialog before playing video. i tried below link example for playing video.

http://davanum.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/android-%E2%80%93-videomus

Answer 1

I would suggest looking at the AsyncTask documentation, this seems ideally suited for doing video pre-loading. This will allow you to keep your UI thread stable during loading. There is an example of using the AsyncTask method here.

To add a progress dialog:

• Create a private ProgressDialog object as part of an extension class of AsyncTask.
• In the onPreExecute() method you can perform progress dialog setting up, such as: pd.setMessage(...) pd.setTitle(...) pd.show(...)
• In the onPostExecute(...) method, dismiss the dialog: pd.dismiss();

Additionally, you can update the progress dialog using its incrementProgressBy(...) method, or alternately have a looping animation using the setIndeterminate(...) method. Giving the user feedback of the loaded progress is a good idea in UI design :)

I hope this helps!