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

You can use AsynchTask class for your web service.You can write your time consuming task in on doInBackground.Also you can use a progress Dialog. Here You can see how to work with AsynchTask.You can also update your UI while web service is parsing without waiting for the complete parsing using onPostUpdate method.