How to handle screen orientation change when progress dialog and background thread active?

Question

My program does some network activity in a background thread. Before starting, it pops up a progress dialog. The dialog is dismissed on the handler. This all works fine, exc

Answer 1

My solution was to extend the ProgressDialog class to get my own MyProgressDialog.
I redefined show() and dismiss() methods to lock the orientation before showing the Dialog and unlock it back when Dialog is dismissed. So when the Dialog is shown and the orientation of the device changes, the orientation of the screen remains until dismiss() is called, then screen-orientation changes according to sensor-values/device-orientation.

Here is my code:

public class MyProgressDialog extends ProgressDialog {
private Context mContext;

public MyProgressDialog(Context context) {
    super(context);
    mContext = context;
}

public MyProgressDialog(Context context, int theme) {
    super(context, theme);
    mContext = context;
}

public void show() {
    if (mContext.getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT)
        ((Activity) mContext).setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
    else
        ((Activity) mContext).setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
    super.show();
}

public void dismiss() {
    super.dismiss();
    ((Activity) mContext).setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR);
}

}