Android: Activity taking too long to display because of web service Http Request

Question

One of my activities make a http request to a webservice to get some weather data when I start the application.

The issue that the activity will take 3-4 seconds to disp

Answer 1

    private class getWeather extends AsyncTask {

        ProgressDialog dialog = null;

        protected void onPreExecute () {
            dialog = ProgressDialog.show(CLASS.this, "", 
                        "Loading. Please wait...", true);
        }

        @Override
        protected Cursor doInBackground(Context... params) {
            WeatherSet set = getWeatherCondition("New York, NY");
            return null;
        }

        protected void onPostExecute(Cursor c) {
            dialog.dismiss();
        }
    }

Then where you have WeatherSet set = getWeatherCondition("New York, NY"); now, you'll put new getWeather().execute(this);

I suggest reading how the AsyncTask works, and see why this should work. It goes outside the onCreate() method.