You may want to look at using an asynctask

Here are some research notes on async task (This is not a tutorial but
could point you to do some work)
http://www.satyakomatineni.com/item/3536

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jared Kass <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working on an app that records information for a study and posts
> it to a database. An alert dialog prompts the user with a question and
> the answer is recorded and sent. I'm successfully updating the
> database using httpclient and httppost, however it takes a varying
> amount of time, usually several seconds. This is unacceptable, and I
> was wondering how to go about having this run in the background. Any
> advice you could give me would be great, thanks!
>
> -Jared
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