What is the best way to go about making a loading popup to display while something else is going on?

My app goes out to a web service of mine to get a url for a image and then that image is placed into an ImageView on the screen.

I want to be able to show a spinning loading type gif (or similar) when I click the next/previsous buttons I have so it shows while the all the back end requests are being done and then it will go away when the image is loaded.

An easy approach can be this:




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what if you want to include an image and not just text?

then I suggest you to create your own Dialog in witch you will set your own content view

you have to create your dialog layout with an xml file

in this xml you have to insert a progressbar (the circle) , an image, what you want

the procedure is explained here
http://developer.android.com/guide/topi ... stomDialog

set the indeterminate mode
http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... ssBar.html

then call show() on the dialog

when you are done call dialog.dismiss();


hope it is clear sorry I m still learning English...
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