How to implement a ProgressDialog while Activity requests a SoapObject from a Web Service?

Question

I know that ProgressDialog with Threads questions have been asked many times but none of the solutions seem to work for my project. Basically what I want to do is this: 1) when

Answer 1

You better use AsyncTask (which is the Android way):

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    new TheTask().execute();
}

private class TheTask extends AsyncTask{

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        authProgressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(XXX.this, "", "Authenticating...", true, false);
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        authenticate(); // method that calls the API via SOAP
        authenticateReal(); // method that handles the response
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        authProgressDialog.dismiss();
    }
}

By the way... I have found this presentation to be very useful (it talks about REST apps, but you can apply the same concept for different kind of apps): Developing Android REST client applications