[android-developers] Re: Android ProgressBar with threads

2012-02-14 Thread JackN
just send a message to the ui thread telling it to refresh On Feb 10, 12:14 pm, Isuru Madusanka isurum@gmail.com wrote: I am working on ProgressBar class in android, but I can't make it progress through 5 seconds and load the application. Everything works but the progress bar not

[android-developers] Re: Android ProgressBar with threads

2012-02-14 Thread Nadeem Hasan
You want to wait for 5 sec before launching just so that you can show a progress bar and appear to be doing something important? If you do, just use a handler instantiated in the activity and post a runnable in the thread which calls setProgress(). -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: Android ProgressBar with threads

2012-02-12 Thread niko20
Actually you can update the UI from another thread with either AsyncTask , or use what is called a Handler, and post a runnable to the handler. The runnable will then contain the code to update the progressbar. I usually use the Handler / Runnable method. -niko On Feb 10, 2:18 pm, TreKing

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android ProgressBar with threads

2012-02-12 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:04 AM, niko20 nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote: Actually you can update the UI from another thread Just to be clear, you cannot update the UI from another thread. What you do, either via an AsyncTask, Handler, or whatever, is indirectly update the UI via some messaging