[android-developers] Re: Need help with background loading

2013-05-08 Thread Piren
dude... i think you're not getting what i'm telling you. onLoadFinished() should call "startActivity(new Intent(DialogActivity.class, ));" DialogActivity is NOT "Activity B", its a whole NEW one that you dont have now. then the onCreate of DialogActivity just does "showDialog(INT_FOR_DIALOG)

[android-developers] Re: Need help with background loading

2013-05-07 Thread MathieuB
We misunderstood! I understood your solution and used it. I launch an activity as a dialog on onLoadFinished. But the loader is initialized in my main activity. So if I goes to another Activity (eg Activity B), and the onLoadFinished is not called yet, then the dialog will not appear because th

[android-developers] Re: Need help with background loading

2013-05-07 Thread Piren
I'm not sure you fully understand what my solution is... Instead of figuring out ways how to get Activity B (or any of your other existing activities) to show the dialog (it can be done of course) i'm suggesting instead to show it in a whole new activity, Activity C. The idea behind is it that i

[android-developers] Re: Need help with background loading

2013-05-07 Thread MathieuB
Thanks for the reply! That works, indeed, but what I really wanted to achieve was to show the alertDialog even if the user is not in the launcher activity anymore. For example : In home activity (Activity A), I start the loader. The onLoadFinished is not yet called and the user goes in anoth

[android-developers] Re: Need help with background loading

2013-05-07 Thread Piren
Launch it from where ever you want (better though to use the launcher activity) then on the "onPostExecute" launch an activity that just shows a dialog (or is a dialog). You can style the activity to either appear as dialog or just have it transparent (transparent background) and use regular di