I saw that tutorial earlier and have also tried it. Yes for now even a progress dialog in that way works for me. I know i need to use getProgress but do not know how to send the progress to the thread running the progress dialog.
Thanks again. On Feb 1, 11:58 am, Temitope Akinwande <[email protected]> wrote: > I found this tutorial > > http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials/using-threads-and-progressdialog > > What you can try to do and see if it works is to create a new thread > on button click so that when the page is loading, you can display an > indeterminate progress dialog while you are waiting on the page to be > done loading using Webview's getProgress() > methodhttp://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/android/webkit/WebView...() > . > > Create a handler so that when the page is done loading, you can > dismiss the dialog. > Hope that helps you(see the tutorial). > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Achanta <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for the reply, > > >> as I'm sure this question has been asked before. > > I was also sure that it has been asked before because its a common > > task, But searching the web or this group did not give me the > > appropriate results. > > >> From what I gather, you'll have to start a thread using AsyncTask and > >> that way you can show your progress dialog. > > I may have to but I am not sure. Here I am loading a webpage and this > > is happening in the same thread or it appears to be. I can also get > > the progress of it from the WebView. I am not doing any background > > activity like calculations or downloading stuff, but loading the page > > which is on the same thread. So I am a little lost on how to get this > > done. > > > Thanks again. > > > On Feb 1, 11:12 am, Temitope Akinwande <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> You can check this > >> outhttp://developer.android.com/intl/fr/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html#Pro... > > >> From what I gather, you'll have to start a thread using AsyncTask and > >> that way you can show your progress dialog. > >> A search of progress dialog and async task should yield more results > >> as I'm sure this question has been asked before. > > >> -Tope > > >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Achanta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I have a search box and a web view in my activity. > > >> > I also have a search button which when someone clicks opens a the url > >> > in the webview below the search box. > > >> > Everything is working fine except that it remains blank while the page > >> > loads. > >> > I want to show a loading message with a spinning icon/animation while > >> > the page loads. [similar to one in the market app]. > > >> > please let me know how to do it. > >> > Thank you. > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "Android Developers" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected] > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
