How can I open a ProgressDialog on top of a DialogFragment?

Question

I have this Android activity/layout with a button. When I click this button, it opens a DialogFragment with 2 spinners. When the DialogFragment shows up, I need to populate thes

Answer 1

I also had a problem when my parent DialogFragment was recreated due to configuration change. I couldn't make the progressDialog to be visible on top again. The solution was to show progressDialog in the onResume() event:

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    if (inProgress) {
        progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(ctx, "Report request", "connecting...", true);
    }
}